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Historical Event on 10/20/1752
The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the 'Raja' with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the 'Mumar Bahadur' with the title of Rajendra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 7/30/1933 | Gandhiji informs the Government of Bombay of his decision to march from Ahmedabad to Ras with 33 followers to revive Civil Disobedience movement. |
| 10/3/1999 | India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 7/2/1950 | Yusuf Meharali, socialist leader, died. |
| 6/8/1997 | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Assam Chief Minister, has a narrow escape as a powerful remote-controlled bomb exploded in Maligaon area of Guwahati. |
| 1/15/1949 | General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 9/11/1911 | Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991. |
| 6/5/1973 | Madhav Sadashiv Golvalkar, politician and RSS chief, passed away. |
| 11/2/1956 | Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons. |
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