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Historical Event on 3/20/1782

Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/23/1897Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
5/28/199613-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence.
7/10/1994Ramrao Raghoba Rane, Paramveer Chakra awardee, died.
7/10/1994Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
3/20/1952Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.
8/8/1984P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
4/6/1997Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference.
9/4/1927World fliers reach Karachi, India.
4/5/1993G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.