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Historical Event on 1/20/1957
South Africa banned Indian Cargo ships to dock at their Ports.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/6/1990 | India wins Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament. |
| 5/26/1931 | One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 4/30/1999 | Jessica Lal, model and TV personality, was murdered in a crowded south Delhi restaurant. |
| 7/2/1993 | ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance. |
| 7/2/1993 | Sultan Mehmood completely destroyed the Temple of Somnath. |
| 7/2/1993 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 3/16/1939 | Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1. |
| 11/6/1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops. |
| 7/24/1932 | Madhukar Devram Toradmal, famous actor and playwright, was born. |
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