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Historical Event on 1/31/1960

Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1983Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
9/29/1836Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras
1/22/1901Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age ""Victorian Britain"".
1/18/1959Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.
7/1/1975Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme.
5/25/1924Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous educationalist, passed away in Dumraon at Bihar .
12/1/1989Dr. Chenna Reddi (Congress-I) becomes CM of Andhra Pradesh.
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
1/16/1966Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune.
10/21/1996Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India.