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Historical Event on 05/20/1399
Saint Kabir was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/3/1924 | Muthuvel Karunanidhi, politician and playwright, was born in Thirukkuvalai (Thanjavur). |
9/17/1998 | Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry. |
4/19/1981 | Indira Gandhi,Prime Minister, inaugurated `Maharashtra Vidhanbhavan'. |
12/7/1979 | First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay. |
6/13/1943 | Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine. |
2/23/1908 | Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born. |
11/18/1972 | Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal' |
3/16/1939 | Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1. |
8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
2/6/1949 | India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad. |
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