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Historical Event on 4/20/1973

Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
2/17/1991Krishnabai Mote, famous author and social worker, passed away.
1/11/1960Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.
4/20/1971Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London.
2/7/1985Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away.
1/1/1989Dinkar Sakrikar, editor of monthly magzine 'Purva' and socialist, passed away.
4/8/1919Gandhiji arrested on way to Delhi for refusal to comply with order not to enter Punjab; escorted back to Bombay; outbreaks of violence in several towns.
3/22/2000India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.