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Historical Event on 5/20/1965
Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1994 | Vaikom Mohammed Basheer, 86, Malayalam literary genius, died in Beypore in Kerala. |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
| 1/23/1997 | Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House. |
| 4/8/1923 | Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 6/2/1993 | Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured. |
| 12/15/1992 | BJP Governments of Sunderlal Patwa (MP), Shanta Kumar (HP) and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan) dismissed. |
| 9/27/1995 | 73 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine. |
| 12/25/1972 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away. |
| 2/25/1999 | The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively. |
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