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Historical Event on 4/20/1887
Padmabhushan Jemini Roy, famous painter, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1996 | SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department. |
| 6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
| 6/29/1976 | Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born. |
| 1/12/1992 | Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous Classical singer, passed away at the age of 67. |
| 7/21/1947 | Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three. |
| 6/2/1955 | A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak. |
| 3/28/1990 | Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient. |
| 8/21/2000 | Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91. |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
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