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Historical Event on 5/20/1991
A. S. L. V. was launched.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/9/1974 | Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away. |
| 2/1/1988 | The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88). |
| 5/29/1953 | Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. |
| 8/18/1891 | Jain Muni Mishrimalji, poet, social reformer and orator, was born at Pali, Rajasthan. |
| 10/9/1963 | Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died. |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 1/22/1973 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India. |
| 3/11/1989 | In Bihar, a 13-member ministry headed by Satyendra Narain Sinha, MP, was sworn in. |
| 9/8/1972 | Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich. |
| 9/8/1972 | Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398. |
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