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Historical Event on 11/21/1947

First Stamp of Independent India was released

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/31/1966Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
8/5/1981Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).
4/30/1981C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-02-1985.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
9/29/1725Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
4/8/1992Congress (I) government led by Rajkumar Dorendra Singh sworn in in Manipur.
8/11/2000Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
5/19/1992Arjuna award for Tennis star Leander Paes and Hockey champion Jagbir Singh.
10/2/1997At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC.