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Historical Event on 3/20/1951
Madanlal Udhouram Sharma, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's), was born in Amritsar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1993 | Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested. |
| 1/9/1664 | Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place. |
| 1/17/1933 | Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims), was born. |
| 10/19/1905 | Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 4/3/1946 | Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive. |
| 4/24/1972 | Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away. |
| 8/8/1932 | Dada Kondke, famous Marathi actor, was born. |
| 8/26/2000 | Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai. |
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