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Historical Event on 6/20/1972

Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey, great Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996), was born in Bombay.

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7/3/1751Pilaji Jadhav died.
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10/30/1947The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan.
3/9/1961Vishnu Sahay was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 15-04-1962.
12/28/2000The Kanchi Acharya presents the Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati national eminence awards to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi (in absentia), scientist Ramnarayan Agarwal and pravachan artist Rameshbhai Ojha.
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10/19/1999Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I).
3/27/1991Chautala recommends Assembly dissolution.
9/4/1952India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.
3/10/1954The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.