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Historical Event on 3/21/1997

Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/18/1879Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
1/21/1997First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.
12/22/1887Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
8/1/1966Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV) was established at Palampur under the aegis of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, to cater to the need of hilly areas of erstwhile Punjab.
10/30/1909Homi Jahangir Bhabha, famous nuclear scientist, was born in Bombay.
6/24/1885Tara Singh, freedom fighter and leader of Akali Dal Master, was born in the village Haryal, District Rawalpindi.
12/4/1894Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).
9/6/1995Salil Chaudhary, famous music director in Hindi film industry, passed away.