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Historical Event on 11/21/1969
Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing 'one heat' in four hours three minutes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1843 | Robert Koch, famous French scientist, was born in Clausthal village, Germany. |
| 4/26/1929 | British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. |
| 11/16/1877 | Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 9/10/1915 | Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore. |
| 1/1/1955 | Shantiswaroop Bhatnagar, famous Indian Chemical Expert, died. |
| 1/26/1926 | V. G. Kanitkar, famous Marathi literatteur, was born. |
| 7/4/1991 | Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
| 10/24/1789 | Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born |
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