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Historical Event on 4/20/1971

India won Cricket Test Rubber' for the first time after defeating West Indies Cricket Team.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/3/1996National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory.
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3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
4/13/1999D. Sripada Rao, former Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, is shot dead by People's War Group naxalites near Annaram village in Karimnagar district.
4/18/1898Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
5/5/1906Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
6/3/1924Muthuvel Karunanidhi, politician and playwright, was born in Thirukkuvalai (Thanjavur).
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