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Historical Event on 3/21/1997
Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 5/10/1996 | PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign. |
| 4/13/1889 | Balkrishna A. Pillai, litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 7/30/1960 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader. |
| 4/3/1903 | Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, famous politician, freedom fighter and social worker, was born in South Kanara, Karnataka. |
| 8/1/1953 | All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International. |
| 5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
| 1/28/1992 | Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away. |
| 7/25/1986 | Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India. |
| 6/16/1993 | Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded. |
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