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Historical Event on 7/21/2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/9/1753Maharaja Surajmal attack on Delhi.
8/11/1916Gopal Raghunath Bewur, former Chief of Army and fighter, was born.
3/31/1964Tram-way service ended in Mumbai (Bombay). This last electric tram left Bori Bunder (CST) for Dadar at 10 p.m., crowds lined the route all the way at that late hour to bid farewell to the common man's transport medium.
2/26/1972President Varahgiri Venkat Giri inaugurated the Vikram Earth Satellite Station at Wardha near Arvi.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
4/17/1983Rohini (RS-D2), placed in orbit, was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. Launched by the second developmental launch of SLV-3.
1/22/1980Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
3/9/1997Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, former Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
9/4/1998Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing.