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Historical Event on 6/20/1987

Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1978Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981.
4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
10/27/1998L. P. Singh, ICS, former Governor of five north eastern states, died in New Delhi. He was 86.
7/17/1996Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
3/18/1944Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
1/15/1958Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.
2/8/1999Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
6/4/1959Chakravarti Rajagopalachari opposed the Socialist Policies of Indian National Congress and founded Swatantra Party alongwith Ranga.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.