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Historical Event on 10/21/1858
Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, great social reformer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1981 | Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. |
| 8/18/1872 | Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra. |
| 2/17/1998 | Re-poll is ordered in 599 polling stations spread over nine states, following reports of largescale booth capturing. The Election Commission is to probe malpractices in Madhepura, Baghpat and Patna. |
| 2/11/2001 | Objective type paper scheduled in 28 cities in India. |
| 7/10/1997 | Rafiq Sadiq, Congress(I) leader, escapes attempt on life when armed militants ambush motorcade near Achabal in South Anantnag, Kashmir valley. |
| 6/25/1999 | PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham. |
| 5/20/1940 | Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away. |
| 3/8/1941 | Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 1/26/1995 | Dr. Nelson Mandela attends India's 46th Republic Day celebration as national guest. |
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