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Historical Event on 2/20/1868
Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali.
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| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
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| 4/20/1965 | First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest. |
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| 12/10/1902 | Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria. |
| 5/13/1916 | Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 6/18/1917 | Lachhmansingh Gill, famous politician and former chief minister, was born. |
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