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Historical Event on 2/21/1952

The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras.

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3/24/1968The second Indian-made rocket 'Menaka' successfully launched at the Thumba station.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
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7/22/1993Swiss Justice ministry reveals that Hindujas, Quatrocchi and Win Chadha are among the seven appellants fighting to prevent the transfer of Bofors pay off names to India.
11/18/1988Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
3/17/1769To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.