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Historical Event on 3/21/1979
Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/26/1949 | Constitution of India was adopted |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
| 6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
| 8/13/1988 | Gajanan Jagirdar, great actor and director in Indian film industry, died. |
| 6/7/2000 | Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. |
| 6/7/2000 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 7/4/1994 | Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died. |
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