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Historical Event on 10/21/1999

B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1980Coal Mine Worker's Day established.
11/28/1962K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died.
1/1/1986Fourth Pay Commission implemented.
10/3/1977Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.
1/23/1993Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, 61 die.
3/10/1969Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union.
12/19/1999The President and the Prime Minister express shock over the bid to assassinate the Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga.
12/22/1998Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
4/26/1973Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977.