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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
3/17/1782Salby Teaty was singed between Anderson (British) and Scindia for the Maratha and East India Company.
12/12/1991Violence in Karnataka over the centre's notification on Cauvery.
2/5/2000A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, defends the Gujarat Government's order lifting the ban on Government employees from participating in RSS activities.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
9/25/1990L. K. Advani, BJP President, starts his Somnath Temple, Ayodhya Rath Yathra.
9/29/1959Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
12/31/1923Vishnu Dayal Jhunjhunwala, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
5/24/1875Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'.
1/1/1989The 4th annual SAARC summit concludes in Islamabad.
11/7/1996Cyclonic storm hits Andhra Pradesh.