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Historical Event on 5/20/1850

Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/28/1929Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born.
7/16/1997Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
7/19/1993Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away.
9/27/199573 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.
9/27/1995Guru Amardasji passed away.
5/21/1996General Election (11th) of India ended.
2/9/1951The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.