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Historical Event on 3/21/1995

Lok Sabha passes Patent Bill by amending the Patent (Amendment) Act 1970.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1892Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai.
4/8/1993CBI extensively raided VHP offices; BJP MP Brijbhushan Saren Singh among five arrested.
7/4/1914Savlaram Ravji Patil (P. Savlaram), film lyrisist and story writer, was born.
4/12/2000Ban on LTTE for two more years from May 14, says the Union Home Minister L. K. Advani.
8/2/1885Poet Siyaram Saran Gupt, brother of national poet Maithilysharan Gupt, was born.
11/22/1773Robert Clive, English occupier (India), passed away at the age of 48.
9/26/1820Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal.
7/30/1886Dr. S.Muthulakshmi Reddi, first women M.A.L.A.S, was born.
5/11/1999Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people.
3/20/1925Marquess Curzon of Kedleston died this morning at age 66 from complications following an operation. Long a kingpin of the Conservative party, Lord Curzon spent 40 years in public life, serving as Viceroy and Governor General of India and, at the end of his career, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Though he came close to becoming prime minister in 1923, his aristocratic past militated against him in an era which nominated leaders from the House of Commons. He twice wed US women and enjoyed fame as an author of books about politics and his own travels.