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Historical Event on 5/20/1850
Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/5/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 1/16/1996 | Supreme Court says trial courts should hold trial of rape cases in camera. |
| 2/3/1983 | Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of Assam's new capital 'Pragjyotishpur'. |
| 2/3/1983 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India. |
| 1/16/1954 | Baburao Painter (Baburao Krishnaji Meshri), famous artist, sculptor, filmmaker and producer, died. |
| 5/22/1927 | M. S. Shivsankaraiyah, cricket test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Andhra Pradesh. |
| 12/1/1955 | Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
| 10/1/1953 | The first new state in India since 1949, Andhra Pradesh, is established on purely linguistic basis and formally inaugurated. This state was created by sub-dividing state of India, Madras Province and this movement was started by Shriramulu for which he had to sacrifice his life. |
| 7/29/1993 | Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha. |
| 1/28/1853 | Jose Marti, great author and politician, was born at Cuba. |
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