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Historical Event on 4/20/1992

U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/1992Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet.
3/3/1847Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
4/4/1994Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns.
1/19/1839Aden conquered by British East India Company.
1/19/1839Bahadur Tair, under their leader Mongol of Hulagu Khan, captured Lahore.
9/3/1997India and E.U. sign an agreement envisaging a $200 m. E.U. aid for the country's primary health care programme.
10/24/1997Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
4/26/1952India says U.N. may disintegrate if powers block consideration of issues in small countries.
4/22/1840James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away.