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Historical Event on 5/20/1965

Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/2/1990Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka.
3/13/1991President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha.
2/18/1946Cabinet Mission in India.
8/19/1994Rupee made fully convertible on current account.
4/8/1774Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.
11/29/1991Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath vs Australia at Gabba.
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
3/21/1997Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts.
9/12/1998India, Malaysia sign an agreement on cooperation in science and technology in Kuala Lumpur.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.