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Historical Event on 2/20/1847
Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1912 | T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/22/1854 | Kawasji Nanabhai Dawar started the first Cloth Mill namely 'Bombay Spinning Mills'. |
| 11/23/1997 | Nirad C.Chaudhuri, famous author, completed 100 years of his life. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 2/21/1995 | The plan outlay for Andhra Pradesh for 1995-96 fixed at Rs. 3.159 crores. |
| 10/17/1915 | Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur. |
| 3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
| 1/2/1994 | India and Pakistan resume talks after a gap of 16 months. |
| 12/23/1900 | Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born. |
| 4/21/1946 | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test umpire, ICC referee), was born in Madras. He received Arjun Award (1971). |
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