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Historical Event on 8/21/1978
Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets.
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| 9/28/1996 | Sukh Ram sent to Tihar jail in assets case. |
| 11/27/2000 | After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year. |
| 4/1/1987 | Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution. |
| 4/1/1973 | India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction. |
| 1/11/1958 | Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps. |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 2/10/1910 | Smt. Durga Bhagwat, veteran Marathi writer, was born. |
| 6/11/1921 | Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P. |
| 3/20/1951 | Madanlal Udhouram Sharma, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's), was born in Amritsar. |
| 5/27/1968 | Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously. |
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