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Historical Event on 4/20/1973
Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1993 | Ramesh More, Shiv Sena MLA, was murdered. |
| 4/27/1994 | Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. |
| 7/4/1900 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, was born. |
| 8/1/1994 | The Railway passenger insurance scheme comes into force. |
| 1/2/1953 | Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India. |
| 1/9/1918 | Harprasad Nanda, famous Industrialist, was born. |
| 8/5/1604 | John Eliot, ""Apostle to Indians,"" Bible translator, baptized. |
| 1/11/1999 | Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/22/1997 | Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70. |
| 2/4/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi released from prison unconditionally at Bombay. |
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