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Historical Event on 8/21/2000

Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1919King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government.
11/19/2000Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.
11/3/1999Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
11/13/1935Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
11/2/1984Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.
12/17/1998P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
12/27/1976The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members who laid down their lives to repulsed several waves of Japanese attacks. Advance Base Depot is shifted to Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 April 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
3/23/2000Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar).