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Historical Event on 8/21/1991
Gopinath Mahant, famous Odissi litterateur and Gyanpeeth awardee, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 9/29/1998 | ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg). |
| 10/1/1941 | No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar. |
| 3/2/1913 | Bhavaniprasad Mishra was born. |
| 12/24/1932 | The third and last Round Table conference on India ends. It was was held in London. |
| 9/14/1919 | Nyalchand Shah, bowled 64-33-97-3 in the Test between India vs Pakistan, was born at Dhragandhara in Gujarat. |
| 12/8/1980 | Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi. |
| 12/15/1675 | Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him. |
| 9/28/1929 | Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born. |
| 3/5/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back. |
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