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Historical Event on 10/21/1916
Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/26/1997 | Vice President Krishan Kant takes over as Chairman of Rajya Sabha. |
8/26/1997 | Meerabai, saint poet, passed away. |
1/21/1952 | Indian National Congress party wins the 1st General Election of India under the ledearship of Jawaharlal Nehru. |
3/31/1992 | Madhav Sinh Solanki, External Affairs minister, resigns on Bofors letter issue. |
3/28/1978 | Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born. |
5/29/1915 | Sita Ram Surajmal Jajoo, social reformer and politician, was born at Neemuch Cantt, M.P. |
8/1/1996 | T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998. |
8/1/1952 | Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru. |
5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
8/10/1982 | Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated. |
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