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Historical Event on 1/20/1952

Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/30/1992The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful.
9/20/1998A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
11/22/1990Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar CM, wins confidence motion (202-108).
9/1/1934Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal.
7/23/1976Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72.
1/7/1993The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court.