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Historical Event on 8/21/1991

Gopinath Mahant, famous Odissi litterateur and Gyanpeeth awardee, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1956The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
7/10/1909Gandhiji arrives in London with the assistance of Lord Ampthill and works ceaselessly to educate influential British leaders and the public, and also to move Imperial authorities.
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
8/29/1993Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
5/27/1997Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta.