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Historical Event on 4/20/1971
Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/11/1980 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away. |
11/8/1948 | Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy. |
1/7/1761 | Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmed Shah Abdali, the ruler of Afghanistan, defeats the Marathas; Maratha imperialism checked. |
7/21/1891 | Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi. |
6/10/1833 | Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
4/1/1962 | Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government. |
9/22/1979 | Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
4/23/2000 | Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy. |
11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
4/9/1783 | Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India. |
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