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Historical Event on 4/21/1994

Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1992Centenary celebrations of Tansa Dam held at Tansa. No of Seats of the Standing Committee and Education Committee increased from 20 to 27and 20 to 26 respectively and that of the B.E.S. & T. Committee from 12 to 17 (Vide Maharashtra Act XXI of 1992) (CIVIC).
2/23/1993Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
11/11/1947Temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur opened for Harijans. Ganpatrao Tapase was the first harijan to enter the temple.
11/3/1966Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000.
11/14/1914Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
8/22/1988Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.
11/19/1877Jatindranath Benarjee, revolutionary of Indian freedom movement, was born.
7/16/1997Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.
5/5/1983Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away.