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Historical Event on 6/21/1930
Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/22/1981 | India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981. |
| 10/16/1788 | Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi. |
| 8/25/1917 | The first significant step towards the Indianization of the Army was initiated when seven selected Indians, serving in the Army, were granted King's Commission in the Infantry and the Cavalry. Before the World War ended, two more Indians, who previously held temporary commissions, were granted King's Commission. |
| 3/7/1974 | T. T. Krishnamachari, former Finance Minister, passed away. |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 12/5/1872 | Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar. |
| 3/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party. |
| 3/29/1943 | Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was hanged at Berhampur Jail. |
| 12/10/1870 | Jadhunath Sarkar, history researcher, was born. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
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