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Historical Event on 4/7/1920

Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/1992The government agrees to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the security scam.
5/15/1999The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.
8/12/1991Parliament passes the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (prevention) amendment bill.
2/3/1977Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering.
6/11/1983Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89.
2/20/1928Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born.
4/23/1929The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime.
5/16/1986V. Shantaram, 75, was chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award.
2/11/1933The outcome of the conference was that diarchy in the province was abolished, federal system was established in the center, Sindh was separated from Bombay, communal awards were started by the Prime Minister of Britain Sir Ramsay McDonald and White Paper on Indian reforms was published in 1933.
8/9/1965Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori).