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Historical Event on 1/21/1997
Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1912 | Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 7/4/1789 | British East India Company signed a treaty with the Nizam of Hydrabad and Peshwa of Pune against Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on the understanding that a cavalry of 10,000 would attack Tipu's territory and the conquered area would be divided amongst the three. |
| 9/29/1992 | Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1) |
| 1/31/1948 | Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it. |
| 7/6/2000 | India, Nepal sign agreement to set up a specialist joint unit to counter terrorism and share information about criminals operating along the border. |
| 12/1/1999 | Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
| 10/27/1999 | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
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