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Historical Event on 7/20/1680
Chhatrapati Sambhaji was throne.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 9/1/1947 | Indian Standard Time was adopted. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
| 11/28/1956 | Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
| 11/6/1998 | Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah. |
| 6/12/1894 | Busushottam Vishwanath Bapat, internationally famed Pali language expert, translator and editor, was born. |
| 10/2/1845 | First Shipping Company of India started. |
| 2/3/1984 | Ravindra Mhatre, great Indian diplomat who was kidnapped in England, was murdered. |
| 9/23/1858 | Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died. |
| 3/14/1998 | Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri. |
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