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Historical Event on 3/20/1951
Madanlal Udhouram Sharma, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's), was born in Amritsar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1994 | Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 4/5/1614 | Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. |
| 2/9/1994 | Supreme Court sets aside disqualification (under anti-defection law in 1991) of former Goa CM Ravi Naik. |
| 6/8/1992 | 55-60\% polling takes place in the Andhra, Bihar, W. Bengal and Delhi by-elections. |
| 8/20/1969 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India. |
| 5/17/1897 | Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born. |
| 10/24/1975 | Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance |
| 1/19/1997 | Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur. |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
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