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Historical Event on 4/21/1994
Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1991 | P.V. Narasimha Rao elected President of Congress (I). |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 3/3/1978 | Origin of Saka Era (India). |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
| 1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
| 3/25/1987 | Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections . |
| 7/22/1925 | Homi Jehangir Teleyarkhan, social worker, was born. |
| 10/11/1999 | Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely. |
| 11/7/1998 | Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas. |
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