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Historical Event on 3/20/1992

Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the 'Bharat Ratna' Award at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1908Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), great actress, was born.
8/30/1992The first Indian-built ALH (Advanced Light Helicopter) successfully flown in Bangalore.
5/28/1895Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born.
4/1/1996Kerala introduces ban on arrack. 5614 licenced arrack shops closed down.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
6/9/1991A question paper was leaked due to which the Civil Services preliminary examination was cancelled.
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
5/18/1999R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.