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Historical Event on 12/20/1957
Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1937 | Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 2/12/1960 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers. |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 4/11/1993 | Laxmanrao Madhav Bhide, senior freedom fighter and history expert, passed away. |
| 12/23/1889 | Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 5/13/1918 | Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born. |
| 12/14/1901 | Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder. |
| 8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
| 10/22/1680 | Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died. |
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