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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 |
| 12/12/1921 | Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad. |
| 2/2/1862 | Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court. |
| 3/15/1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe. This was his second consecutive Test 200. |
| 5/25/1917 | Abdul Vavakunju Ummasalumma Khader, freedom fighter, was born in Kerala. He was hanged on September 10, 1943. |
| 6/9/1957 | General Election ( 2nd) of India ends. |
| 8/4/1956 | Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay. |
| 7/7/1999 | The Indian Army recaptures Jubar height in the Batalik sector. |
| 12/4/1898 | Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/1/1954 | French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India. |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
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