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Historical Event on 3/20/1602

United East India Company of the Netherlands i.e. Dutch East India Company was chartered by States-General of Holland. During its 96-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.
3/8/1948Air India International was established for overseas services.
12/10/1948Human Rights Day.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
1/21/1908Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed.
11/13/1970Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.
9/11/1954Ram Naresh, editor and Hindi author, was born.
5/7/1994Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India.
7/26/1975Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations.
10/5/1864Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died.