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Historical Event on 5/20/1940

Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1952First Indo-Soviet Trade agreement signed.
4/30/1888Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad.
11/2/1984Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.
8/18/1995Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
4/4/1942Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War.
9/1/1965Pakistan launched Operation 'Grand Slam' in Chhamb sector aimed at Akhnoor in Jammu. Indians had battled Pakistanis in air and on ground at Kashmir.
2/22/1947Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.
5/4/1980Coal Mine Worker's Day established.
4/5/1940Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".