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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 |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 9/15/1993 | Election Commission announces polls in the former BJP-ruled states of UP, MP, HP, Rajasthan and in Delhi and Mizoram. |
| 4/1/1954 | French settlements in India pass under Indian control. |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 12/29/1938 | Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74. |
| 3/11/1984 | India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam. |
| 10/19/1974 | T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 12/27/1999 | PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan. |
| 8/15/1925 | Sadashiv Pandurang Jantre, great freedom fighter and social worker, was born . |
| 4/5/1961 | Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs. |
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