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Historical Event on 05/20/1399

Saint Kabir was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1920Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52), was born in Sangor, Vidarbha.
4/23/1751Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born.
2/2/1977Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
2/28/1918Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
10/31/1885St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi.
5/20/1991A. S. L. V. was launched.
4/20/1991Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
8/19/1944The last Japanese troops driven out of India.