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Historical Event on 5/20/1940

Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
10/26/194627 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta.
1/7/1885Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born.
10/15/1921Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
1/6/1664Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
5/8/1901British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
11/24/1969Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab.