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Historical Event on 1/21/1997
Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
12/31/1988 | Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other. |
11/12/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President. |
6/27/1967 | First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. |
3/8/1864 | Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912. |
1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
12/16/1971 | Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan. |
3/9/1914 | Hansaraj Rahbar, the unfolder of prominent personalities and dynamic writer, was born. |
1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
4/25/1906 | Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born. |
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