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Historical Event on 11/20/1969
Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
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| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
| 4/12/1801 | Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab. |
| 11/3/1991 | India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested. |
| 11/20/1888 | Gurunath Bewoor, director general, was born at Bewoor village, district Bijapur. |
| 11/29/1869 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra. |
| 9/20/1993 | First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit. |
| 1/22/1901 | Nirmal Kumar Bose was born. |
| 8/1/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 10/5/1990 | Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died. |
| 12/22/1866 | Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar. |
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