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Historical Event on 5/20/1750

Tipu Sultan, tiger of Mysore, was born. He was the son of Hyder Ali and born at Devanhalli village near Bangalore. Hyder Ali named his son after a great Sufi saint namely Tipu Mastan Aulia. Tipu Sultan was a great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, musician and architect.

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5/26/1739Afghanistan was separated from the Indian empire as a result of a treaty signed between Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah and Nadir Shah.
3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
6/15/1986K. K. Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), was killed in a motor-scooter accident.
7/4/1989Union Deputy Ministers were promoted to the rank of Ministers of State.
7/8/1907Elphinstone Picture Palace was started by Jamshedji F. Madan at Calcutta.
3/31/1986Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam.
10/11/1968Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj passed away. (Samadhee)
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
10/20/1961B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.
10/26/1990V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay.