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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
| 8/21/1879 |
Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 8/21/1931 |
Pandit Vishnu Dingambar Paluskar, famous singer and the blind musician of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 8/21/1955 |
Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
| 8/21/1972 |
A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction. |
| 8/21/1978 |
Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
| 8/21/1981 |
Dattatrey Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kakasaheb"", freedom fighter, passed away at the age of 96. |
| 8/21/1986 |
Nine-member Cong-MNF coalition ministry headed by MNF President Laldenga sworn-in in Aizawl. |
| 8/21/1987 |
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma elected the Vice President of India (1987 - 1992). |
| 8/21/1988 |
500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
| 8/21/1990 |
Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha . |
| 8/21/1991 |
Gopinath Mahant, famous Odissi litterateur and Gyanpeeth awardee, died. |
| 8/21/1995 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 8/21/1997 |
Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people. |
| 8/21/1997 |
Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 8/21/2000 |
Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91. |
| 8/21/2000 |
Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/21/1984 | Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay. |
| 2/21/1952 | The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras. |
| 7/6/1955 | Marshall Tito and Nehru's joint declaration in Belgrade. |
| 10/1/1990 | Constitution's 75th amendment bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months fails through the first stage in Lok Sabha for want of a simple majority. |
| 1/27/1999 | P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest. |
| 11/24/1932 | The Third Round Table Conference ended in London. As Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it. This conference ended without achieving anything. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 9/4/1962 | Kiran Shankar More, great Indian wicket-keeper in 49 Tests 1986-93, was born in Baroda. |
| 7/18/1993 | Jayalalitha goes on fast on Cauvery issue. |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
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