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Historical Event on 2/21/1997
J. M. Lyngdoh appointed Election Commissioner.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/24/1924 | Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar. |
| 9/12/1899 | Vibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, world famous Bengali novelist, was born. |
| 3/29/1942 | Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now. |
| 9/28/1993 | Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives. |
| 1/2/1990 | Election panel made one member body again; Election Commissioners S. S. Dhanoa and V. S. Seigell removed. |
| 11/9/1967 | Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 4/3/1984 | Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi. |
| 7/12/1980 | Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha. |
| 8/26/1874 | Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born. |
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