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Historical Event on 6/20/1921

Tilak University was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1997Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile.
1/1/1920Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
8/22/1980Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died.
9/27/1703More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England.
12/17/1645Noorjahan Begum passed away.
9/11/1985Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India.
3/28/1994G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi.
5/5/1932Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.