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Historical Event on 8/21/1997

Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
4/4/1984Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian Astronaut to go in space from Baikanaur aboard Soviet Space Craft 'Soyuz 11' and revolved around the earth.
1/18/1985Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held.
2/27/1993Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget.
3/27/1845Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany.
2/10/1926Rajmata Krishna Kumari, social worker, was born at Dharangadhra.
3/22/199957 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.
12/28/1971Nanak Singh, famous novelist and poet, died at Preet Nagar.
5/23/1997The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh.
4/10/1996The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.