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Historical Event on 1/20/1997

The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/26/1972The first International Sanskrit Conference was held by President V.V Giri.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
10/10/1937Anant Bhave, famous Marathi litterateur and news announcer on Doordarshan, was born.
4/2/1702Balaji Vishwanath Bhat, first Peshwa, passed away.
1/4/1972Pakistan proposed to talk after the war.
12/4/1661Murad Baksh was executed on the charge of murdering Diwan Ali Nagi.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
10/1/1992Broadcasting of Zee TV started.