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Historical Event on 2/21/1952

General Election ( 1st) of India ends.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/26/1947Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion.
2/22/1958Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.
11/19/1924Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab.
11/19/1924Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli.
2/19/1992An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.
6/14/1992Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
1/15/1999Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai.