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Historical Event on 7/20/1957
India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1996 | In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls. |
| 9/10/1920 | Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 7/19/1952 | India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day. |
| 5/6/1971 | India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
| 9/27/1908 | Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born. |
| 9/21/1994 | Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 8/17/1986 | In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"". |
| 11/23/1993 | 'The Bullshit'', a Turkish film, wins the Golden Elephant award at the 8th International Childrens film festival in Udaipur. |
| 3/17/1995 | Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
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