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Historical Event on 4/20/1992
U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/2/1992 | Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet. |
3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
1/19/1839 | Aden conquered by British East India Company. |
1/19/1839 | Bahadur Tair, under their leader Mongol of Hulagu Khan, captured Lahore. |
9/3/1997 | India and E.U. sign an agreement envisaging a $200 m. E.U. aid for the country's primary health care programme. |
10/24/1997 | Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance. |
9/10/1920 | Calyampudi 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. |
4/26/1952 | India says U.N. may disintegrate if powers block consideration of issues in small countries. |
4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
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