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Historical Event on 4/7/1920
Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/21/1990 | Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays. |
| 6/1/1819 | William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal. |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 9/26/1999 | Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science. |
| 5/5/1929 | Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay. |
| 12/13/1999 | Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999. |
| 2/12/1990 | The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved. |
| 12/22/1877 | Shreenivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, was born. |
| 2/16/1986 | The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails. |
| 3/22/1709 | It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631. |
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