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Historical Event on 12/20/1948

Ladha Ramji, brother of Amar Singh and played his only Test vs Eng in 1933-34, died at Rajkot.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.
2/17/1994Bihar leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and Mizoram's Dr. C. Silvera inducted into Union Cabinet.
4/5/1990Lok Sabha passes the Punjab Bill.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
4/9/1695Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav.
1/5/1941Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi jr., Indian batsman & youngest Indian Test Captain), was born in Bhopal.
1/10/1975India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
3/12/1972Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.