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Historical Event on 5/20/1677
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1927 | Rail service started between India and Nepal. |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 5/5/1946 | Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
| 3/25/1983 | Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away. |
| 5/27/1919 | Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telgu language, author and social reformer, passed away. |
| 5/25/1965 | Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
| 1/1/1900 | Sathya Sai Baba was born |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 1/3/1919 | Shambhu Pan, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1960-70, was born at Bengal. |
| 12/23/1912 | Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast. |
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