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Historical Event on 7/20/1957
India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1970 | Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay. |
| 3/12/1917 | Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India. |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 6/9/1994 | Yogi Dhirendra Bhramachari, [controversial Flying Swami], hindu saint, died in an air crash near Jammu. He was 70. |
| 3/26/1931 | New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies. |
| 11/2/1999 | The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship. |
| 3/30/1908 | Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born. |
| 6/30/1993 | AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF. |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
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