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Historical Event on 12/20/1957
Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/21/1966 | General Election (11th) of India ends. |
| 5/2/1921 | Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 6/4/1972 | First Environment Day. |
| 11/5/1906 | Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name. |
| 7/5/1917 | 'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya. |
| 10/27/1969 | Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab. |
| 7/20/1654 | Portugal was taken over by Britishers. |
| 3/16/1999 | Amarjeet Kaypee of Haryana, during an innings of 148 against Madhya Pradesh in the super-league match at Rajnandgaon, overtook Ashok Malhotra's 7,274 runs and became the highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy. |
| 4/19/1993 | Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle. |
| 1/21/1983 | R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away. |
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