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Historical Event on 7/20/1654
Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
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| 8/9/1971 | Vinodnand Jha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, died. |
| 5/2/1985 | Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 7/29/1904 | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, president of Tata industrial group, was born in Paris, France. He was the first pilot of India to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna. |
| 1/11/1994 | Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away. |
| 9/4/1895 | Siyaramsharan Gupt was born. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 6/1/1972 | Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS). |
| 12/17/1914 | Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore. |
| 3/23/1995 | Shakti Chattopadhyay, famous poet, passed away. |
| 2/2/1959 | Indira Gandhi was elected the president of the ruling Congress Executive Party. Thereby Congress spilt,and leftist formed Swantantra Party. |
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