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Historical Event on 1/20/1997

The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
3/2/2000Om Prakash Chautala, Indian National Lok Dal supremo, sworn in the 18th Chief Minister of Haryana.
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.
5/31/1977Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak.
2/26/1901The notes of Rs twenty denomination were issued with two issuing circles. These notes had four numeric denominations.
10/19/1970First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
9/13/1965Pakistanis bomb Bombay.
12/19/1945Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.
12/19/1945While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River.
10/19/1910Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.