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Historical Event on 6/20/1987
Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/19/1976 | Nagarjun Sagar University established in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
| 10/2/1934 | Indian Naval Force was established. |
| 4/12/1873 | Kumaran Asan, famous Malyalam poet and social reformer, was born at Kayikkara, Kerala. |
| 10/27/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, resigned from Bangarappa Government in Karnataka. |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 8/16/1965 | Indian troops cross Kashmir line, seizes two Pakistani outposts. |
| 8/16/1965 | Chandbibi made treaty with Murad and gave 'Varhad' area to Mughals. |
| 1/16/1916 | Amat Debananda, politician, was born in Balani village at Orissa . |
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