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Historical Event on 08/20/1597
The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East.
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| 5/12/1995 | India refused to sign NPT in its present discriminatory form. |
| 9/29/1964 | 1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst. |
| 4/2/1902 | Gulam Ali Khan Ustad Bade was born. |
| 1/20/1988 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, better known as Sarhadi Gandhi or Frointier Gandhi, passed away. |
| 9/25/1997 | BAI-IBC dispute resolved. |
| 2/8/1967 | Indira Gandhi was hit in face by a stone while addressing crowd. |
| 5/2/1985 | Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 8/19/1993 | Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64. |
| 8/26/1984 | An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers. |
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