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Historical Event on 5/21/1966
General Election (11th) of India ends.

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8/15/1996	Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.
12/29/1997	Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
12/21/1994	The IAF return from peace keeping duties as part of the Indian contingent supporting UN operations in Somalia.
3/31/1994	The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal.
7/4/1897	Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement.
7/4/1897	General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India.
2/14/1929	Devendra 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.
2/18/1993	Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
10/10/1957	Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice.
12/1/1965	Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan.

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Historical Event on 5/21/1966 General Election (11th) of India ends.

Historical Event on 5/21/1966
General Election (11th) of India ends.