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Historical Event on 3/21/2000
The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1967 | China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border. |
| 9/29/1932 | Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born. |
| 9/28/1909 | Jairaj, famous film actor, was born. His first film was 'Sparkling Youth' (1930). He was a receipant of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Some of his films are 'Fight unto Death', 'All for love', 'Bhawani No Bhog', 'Pearl', 'Queen of Faries', 'The Enemy', 'My Hero'. |
| 11/1/1966 | Punjab High Court was renamed as Punjab & Haryana High Court. This court was established in Chandigarh for Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh territory. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 5/3/1896 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala. |
| 8/10/1992 | P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died. |
| 1/30/1994 | Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets. |
| 10/10/1990 | Marxist extremists set fire to a crowded train in Andhra Pradesh killing more than 60. |
| 11/14/1926 | Piloo H. Mody, social reformer, politician and architect, was born at Bombay. |
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