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Historical Event on 6/20/1756

A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1981Central Government offers full statehood to Mizoram.
7/12/1980Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha.
7/29/1876Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
3/26/1990Maniben Patel, daughter of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, passed away.
4/15/1874Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of `Maharashtra Natak Mandali', was born.
9/21/1996Apang (Legislative Party leader of Arunachal Congress) sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh chief minister again.
9/15/1947Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer.