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Historical Event on 11/20/1969

Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1996CBI identifies two key figures - Satyanarayana Gauda and Daya Manikam Anand - in Purulia arms drop case.
1/21/1994India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
9/17/1948The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement.
11/22/1997Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad.
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
6/22/1897The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter.
8/18/1920Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding.
11/6/1999Red carpet welcome to Pope. He appreciated the religious freedom in India.