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Historical Event on 4/20/1997

Sheri Bamboat and Hamshad Bamboat win National sea-bird sailing title.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
11/24/1999The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off.
1/11/1993Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.
2/20/1994Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking.
11/11/1947Temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur opened for Harijans. Ganpatrao Tapase was the first harijan to enter the temple.
12/1/1886Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
10/5/1949A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died.
2/20/2000India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.