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Historical Event on 1/20/1957

First Indian Atomic Reactor ""Apsara"" at Trombay, Mumbai, was dedicated to the nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
5/5/1998Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
2/17/1992Tripura's Congress (I) ministry falls as TUJS withdraws support.
2/20/1868Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.
7/19/1952India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day.
3/30/1945Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born.
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
10/13/1877Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born.
4/8/1998Sedapatti R. Muthiah resigns as the Union Surface Transport Minister at the behest of his party supremo Jayalalitha. He is involved in court cases.