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Historical Event on 11/20/1955

Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/8/1986For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.
4/16/1934Ram Damodar Naik was born in Sangli (Maharashtra).
4/4/1971Pakistan reports seizure of nine Indian army vehicles.
10/2/1929Mahatma Gandhi made the Navjivan publication a charitable trust
6/25/1992BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
8/4/1929Kishor Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, was born at Khandava. He is also rememberd as a comic actor, director and musician.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
7/6/1939Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
2/4/1976Lok Sabha's life extended by one year.