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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 |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 9/27/1995 | Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi. |
| 11/11/1888 | Acharya Kripalani, nationalist and member of the Parliament, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 5/1/1987 | The Bofors Deal. |
| 1/25/1983 | Telugu Desam swept to power in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/5/1949 | A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died. |
| 10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
| 4/18/1959 | India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation. |
| 2/24/1996 | Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA. |
| 7/12/1996 | Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys. |
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