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1995 Event - Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

1994 Event - Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

1993 Event - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay

1993 Event - Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs. England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours

1991 Event - Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs

1987 Event - Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI vs. India at Bombay

1986 Event - Allan Border scores the 10,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)

1985 Event - Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final

1984 Event - Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy

1983 Event - Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI vs. India Bombay

1983 Event - Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

1981 Event - Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy

1980 Event - Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final

1980 Event - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)

1980 Event - Botham a century and 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay

1978 Event - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213

1973 Birthday - Sairaj Bahatule, cricketer, promising Bombay leg-spin all-rounder

1968 Birthday - Abey Kuruvila, cricketer, promising Bombay fast bowler

1966 Event - Test debut of Clive Lloyd, vs. India Bombay, 82 and 78

1962 Birthday - Alan Sippy, cricketer, dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's

1960 Event - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states

1958 Event - Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, vs. India at Bombay

1950 Birthday - Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress, Star Trek, Megaforce

1949 Event - Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die

1944 Event - Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376

1942 Event - Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress

1936 Birthday - Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer, Householder

1936 Birthday - Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer, Who Killed Teddy Bear

1936 Birthday - Zubin Mehta, born in Bombay, India, conductor, New York Philharmonic

1933 Event - B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, England vs. India at Bombay

1929 Birthday - Narotam Puna, cricketer, Bombay New Zealand off-spinner vs. England 1966

1911 Event - L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay

1906 Birthday - Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist, England Have My Bones

1899 Event - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa

1882 Event - Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000

1882 Event - Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die

1865 Birthday - Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author, Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907

1853 Event - 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)

1841 Event - "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk

1803 Event - Great fire in Bombay, India

1668 Event - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

1668 Event - England takes control of Bombay India

1661 Event - Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II

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