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Historical Event on 9/21/1938
Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/6/1942 | During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam. |
| 11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
| 10/2/1996 | Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen. |
| 8/27/1604 | Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar. |
| 10/27/1605 | Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra. |
| 5/17/1994 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari voted out in Sikkim; Sikkim Sangram Parishad leader Sanchaman Limboo takes over as CM. |
| 5/10/1982 | Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being. |
| 8/23/1994 | Arati Gupta (Saha) succumbed to an incurable jaundice. (29-9-99). |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 11/22/1999 | V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh. |
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