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Historical Event on 7/20/1916

Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1999Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor.
4/30/1909Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab).
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
6/23/1958Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority.
11/3/1988Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.
10/9/1994Kamal Bose, great photographer, died.
9/1/1956Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory.
5/11/1965The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country.
8/16/1980Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.
5/12/1992Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.