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Historical Event on 4/20/1971
Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/25/1991 | Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao, famous economist and former central minister, passed away. |
| 7/25/1991 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 1/8/1947 | Rajasthan University established at Jaipur. |
| 5/29/1967 | First blowdown of the 4 ft trisonic tunnel; the tunnel with all auxiliary facilities such as compressor system, electrical sub-station, design office and model fabrication shop is formally set up and commissioned by National Aeronautical Laboratory. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 11/20/1998 | Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
| 12/11/1780 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 1/2/1964 | Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died. |
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