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Historical Event on 8/20/1991
Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/23/1926 | Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก |
| 6/29/1909 | Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 3/27/1767 | Khanderao Holkar, one of the Generals in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 5/20/1965 | Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit. |
| 11/1/1927 | Ghani Khan Chaudha, political leader, was born. |
| 11/17/1999 | India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 10/13/1991 | Captain Satish Sharma nominated to contest from Amethi. |
| 9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 12/8/1900 | Udayshankar, famous dance master, was born. |
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