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Historical Event on 4/20/1960
Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/2000 | The Supreme Court rejects a petition filed by former Navy chief Vishnu Bhagwat challenging his dismissal from service and the consequent direction stripping him of the title Admiral. |
| 4/13/1796 | The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India. |
| 1/18/1842 | Mahadev Govind Ranade was born. He was the chief architect of Bombay Prathana Samaj. |
| 1/7/1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 5/14/1972 | Fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces along the Kashmir border reported. |
| 10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
| 10/10/1910 | Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, famous doctor who worked in China, was born at Solapur, Maharashtra. |
| 6/18/1996 | CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam. |
| 12/4/1924 | Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding. |
| 11/17/1948 | Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers. |
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