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Historical Event on 4/20/1991
Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1997 | Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
| 2/7/1864 | P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born. |
| 1/22/1990 | FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case. |
| 5/8/1992 | Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), passed away. |
| 9/21/1948 | Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 3/31/1997 | The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points. |
| 1/16/1989 | Prem Nazir, famous actor of more than 620 Malayalam films, died at the age of 59 yrs. |
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