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Historical Event on 10/20/1961
B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1912 | Bardanand Chattergy, chemical expert, was born. |
| 3/16/1998 | Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party. |
| 6/17/1913 | Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born. |
| 6/25/1994 | Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died. |
| 2/23/1962 | Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started. |
| 10/3/1978 | Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta. |
| 4/27/1854 | First telegram was sent between Mumbai and Pune. |
| 2/2/1952 | India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras. |
| 3/13/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947. |
| 6/16/1990 | Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986. |
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