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Historical Event on 7/20/1905

First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India.

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6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
3/6/1962Ambika Chakrovorty, great revolutionary and warrior, passed away.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
5/3/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.
11/29/1798Neplus Naresh Fardinad Chaturth announced that they will fight against France.
6/13/1918Foundation stone was liad of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir Public Hall in Mumbai.
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