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Historical Event on 10/21/1577
Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1965 | British Indian Ocean Territory formed. |
| 6/29/1908 | Pratapsing Gaekwad, Prince of Baroda, was born. |
| 4/3/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan. |
| 6/6/1997 | U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal. |
| 6/2/1990 | Sri Ram Sharma Acharya passed away. (27-6-91). |
| 9/22/1979 | Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 9/30/1996 | Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 6/29/1909 | Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 12/29/1927 | Hakim Ajmal Khan, freedom fighter, litterateur and a true patriot, died. |
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