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Historical Event on 7/20/1654
Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
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| 11/1/1978 | Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV) was converted from College of Agriculture to University. |
| 1/20/1999 | Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award. |
| 4/18/1914 | Cottari Subbanna Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie), was born in Nagpur. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 4/2/1992 | Agajan Baig (Aga), famous Hindi film actor, passed away. |
| 4/3/1994 | Bhanu Prakash Singh,Goa Governor, resigns. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
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