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Historical Event on 3/20/1952

Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1992A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam.
10/28/1977Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died.
11/16/198966 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued.
2/22/1946Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day.
3/31/1986Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam.
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
5/27/1951Taraporewala Aquarium was inaugurated at Mumbai by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
11/21/1971Rebellion in East Pakistan (formerly Bengal). Ten million Bengalis flee to India. Indo-Pak border clashes escalate to war. India defeats West Pakistan. E. Pakistan becomes independent Bangladesh.
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.