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Historical Event on 5/20/1994
Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1997 | 18 persons were killed and 10 wounded by suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militants at Thalchhara near Agartala. |
| 2/5/1986 | Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away. |
| 5/22/1917 | Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 3/1/1990 | BJP swept to power in Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, shares power with JD in Gujarat and Rajasthan. |
| 3/21/1791 | Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis. |
| 10/15/2000 | Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand |
| 2/11/1998 | Prof. Anil Kumar Baruah, CPI(ML) candidate for the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Neharani. |
| 11/23/1991 | India decides to upgrade its ties with the Soviet Republics. |
| 9/14/1953 | Andhra Pradesh was established. Hyderabad became the capital instead of Karnul. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
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