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Historical Event on 11/20/1969

Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
12/10/1999Dara Singh, the prime accused in the killing of Australian missionary, again gives a slip to police.
9/29/1708British East India Company and New East India company merged.
3/3/1990JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.
6/29/1909Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born.
7/20/1654Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
1/7/1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.
9/1/1909Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University.
9/2/1947Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.
1/24/1966Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board.