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Historical Event on 12/20/1987
Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) in 76th Tennis Davis Cup .
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
| 1/20/1994 | Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta. |
| 1/19/1977 | World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'. |
| 3/11/1948 | SS Jal Usha, the first ocean-going steamer made in India, was launched from Visakhapatnam. |
| 5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
| 10/2/1975 | Kumaraswami Kamaraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, died in Madras. |
| 10/1/1967 | Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established. |
| 1/1/1934 | Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka. |
| 8/13/1911 | Guha Phulrenu, social worker, was born. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
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