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Historical Event on 2/21/1991
Opposition boycotts the President's address as a protest against the dismissal of Tamil Nadu government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea. |
| 9/12/1962 | Raghav Rangayya, famous Hindi poet, story writer and novelist, died. |
| 2/17/1976 | Urban Ceilings Act comes into force. |
| 8/19/1946 | Cabinet Mission's plan announced an interim government, which was formed by reconstituting the Viceroy's Executive Council. The Muslim League took umbrage and started direct action. Riots broke out as Muslims attacked Hindu's in Calcutta and the rest of Bengal. The Viceroy persuaded the Muslim League to join the government. But the League declined to join the Constituent Assembly unless the demand for a seperate state of ""Pakistan"" was conceded. |
| 3/22/1999 | Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur. |
| 6/9/1949 | Kiran Bedi, the first woman Indian Police Service Officer, was born in Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 11/30/1982 | World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi. |
| 9/2/1996 | Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva. |
| 9/2/1996 | Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi. |
| 4/17/1945 | Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan. |
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