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Historical Event on 3/21/1957
India's national calender came into force.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/17/2000 | 55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport. |
| 11/9/1997 | Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards. |
| 5/29/1972 | Prithviraj Kapoor, famous film actor, passed away. |
| 4/12/1873 | Kumaran Asan, famous Malyalam poet and social reformer, was born at Kayikkara, Kerala. |
| 5/18/1775 | Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 5/16/1926 | Manik Varma, famous singer, was born. |
| 9/7/1906 | Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered. |
| 5/24/2000 | The Supreme Court rejects the proposal for setting up benches outside Delhi. |
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