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Historical Event on 11/20/1969
Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/26/1996 | Parliament's budget session opens. |
| 2/24/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi released from jail. |
| 6/7/1974 | Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis star, was born. He is the winner of French Open 1997 (mixed doubles) and 1999 (doubles) and Wimbledon 1999. |
| 7/27/1927 | Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
| 5/18/1995 | Criminal Law (Amendment Bill, 1995) introduced in Parliament to replace the 10-year-old controversial TADA Act. |
| 11/15/1911 | First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 2/8/1881 | Faiyaj Khan, famous Indian classical singer, was born. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
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