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, Eng vs. India at Bombay
1929 Narotam Puna, cricketer, Bombay NZ 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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