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Historical Event on 07/20/1296
Allau'd-din Khalji declared himself as King of Delhi after assissinating Jalal'ud-din Khalji. (19 0r 20).
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| 10/19/1983 | Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler. |
| 7/9/1746 | French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999. |
| 7/8/1985 | Sri Lanka Peace talks open in Thimphu. |
| 3/9/1974 | Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away. |
| 2/18/1988 | Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away. |
| 3/3/1707 | Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First. |
| 1/4/1892 | J. C. Kumarappa, a Gandhian by thought, was born. |
| 4/30/1977 | Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed. |
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