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Historical Event on 8/21/1997
Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1612 | East India Company's Navy eastablished. |
| 5/5/1942 | Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 1/17/1987 | Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar. |
| 7/29/1999 | Bandh in Mumbai to protest against the verdict barring Bal Thackeray from voting and contesting any election till December 10, 2001. |
| 12/5/1951 | Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away. |
| 6/6/1997 | Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. |
| 3/12/1917 | Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 3/19/1944 | Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'. |
| 4/4/1910 | Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga. |
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