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Historical Event on 9/20/1940

Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1997Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
8/4/2000Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and the last member of the British royal family to bear the title ''Empress of India'', celebrated her 100th birthday.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.
4/3/1984Bombay beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
4/10/1982Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral).
11/12/1996Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana.
12/23/1944U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born.
11/21/1970Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist, passed away early morning at Bangalore, Karnataka. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering which is a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line is associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength and this is called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
2/1/1881Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
1/28/1976Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park.