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Historical Event on 3/21/1791
Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/5/1974 | Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died. |
| 12/4/1829 | Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
| 4/21/1998 | The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated. |
| 2/10/1986 | Pope John Paul II ends visit to India. |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 3/26/1999 | Indian Airlines regained the National hockey men's title in Hyderabad. |
| 7/14/1997 | India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting. |
| 5/1/1879 | Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 8/18/1872 | Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra. |
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