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Historical Event on 1/20/1957
South Africa banned Indian Cargo ships to dock at their Ports.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
| 9/9/1997 | Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master. |
| 6/16/1997 | P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi. |
| 5/29/1933 | Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'. |
| 11/12/2000 | Huge voter turnout for Congress Presidential poll. Seven top BSF and IAF officials die after their MI8 helicopter crashes near Lakhpat in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. |
| 11/15/1875 | Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar. |
| 1/1/1989 | The 4th annual SAARC summit concludes in Islamabad. |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 1/3/1945 | No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
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