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Historical Event on 8/6/1920
'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1977 | Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, president of Sahitya Academy, National Professor and eminent linguist, passed away. |
| 6/27/1906 | Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'. |
| 7/1/1985 | Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office. |
| 2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
| 5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
| 5/30/1977 | Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons. |
| 1/11/1986 | The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 12/1/1951 | Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
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