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Historical Event on 1/20/1994
Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1920 | Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities. |
| 6/20/1946 | Kashmir authorities arrest President-elect Nehru for refusing to obey an order banning him from the state. |
| 3/16/1928 | C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore. |
| 7/20/1993 | Chander Mohan, son of Haryana CM Bhajanlal, wins the by-elections in the Kalka assembly constitutency by a margin of 61,800 votes. |
| 1/5/1948 | Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's), was born in Alwar, Rajasthan. |
| 8/29/1931 | Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India. |
| 8/3/1994 | The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96). |
| 4/15/1992 | Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal. |
| 10/28/1998 | Ghulam Ahmed, former Indian cricket captain, died in Hyderabad. |
| 3/29/1979 | Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy. |
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