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Historical Event on 2/20/1847

Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/30/1834Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
2/20/1976Production of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
6/15/1907Narayan Ganesh Goray, freedom fighter and socialist, was born at Hindala (Maharashtra).
12/31/1998Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
6/15/1948Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.
2/9/1992Publication of daily newspaper `Lokpatra' started from Nanded.
11/6/1998Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.
12/23/1944U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.