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Historical Event on 3/20/1921

Dr. P. C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/2000Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena Chief, courts arrest and the court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Boiwada, B. P. Kamble dismisses the case because of six-year delay in pursuing it after the FIR.
5/1/1908Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women.
12/13/1984The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect.
11/3/1929Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
5/19/1953State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development.
12/25/1974Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome.
12/13/2000All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.
1/15/1997Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.