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

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

1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213

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

1968 Abey Kuruvila, cricketer, promising Bombay fast bowler

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

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

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

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

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

1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die

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

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

1936 Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer, Householder

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

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

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

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

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

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

1899 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa

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

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

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

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

1841 "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk

1803 Great fire in Bombay, India

1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company

1668 England takes control of Bombay India

1661 Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II


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