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Historical Event on 11/20/1967

First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/17/1946Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away.
3/31/1995Bombay beat Punjab in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
6/19/2000Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.
7/8/1928Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.
3/9/1999Rabri Devi is sworn in Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time.
2/16/1896Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
12/25/1964Anil Kaul, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96), was born in Amritsar, India.
2/19/1992Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away.
10/26/1990V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay.