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Historical Event on 1/20/1939

Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, great Indian astronomer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
5/15/1992Harshad Mehta suspended.
9/22/1937The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
2/11/1959Vinoo Mankad plays his final Test Cricket (vs West Indies at Delhi).
7/8/199733 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab.
6/11/1921Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P.
6/13/1973Sir Ram Nath Chopra, great professor of Pharmacology of National Drug Research Institute of India, passed away.
2/19/200018 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai.