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Historical Event on 10/20/1947

First battle between India and Pakistan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1919Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
1/25/1999Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri.
10/27/1982Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died.
8/12/1966Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis.
6/15/1659Aurangzeb was declared as the Emperor of India at Red Fort Delhi.
10/28/1981Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta.
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
5/22/1997At least 40 persons are killed and over 300 injured in an earthquake which hit Jabalpur city.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).