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Historical Event on 12/21/1881
Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 12/4/1910 | Mughal conqueror Babur Shah (1483-1530) defeats Ibrahim Lodi II, the Lodi Sultan of Delhi, and captures Delhi and the Koh-i-noor diamond, in the First Battle of Panipat. He founded the Mughal dynasty in India (1526-1761), consolidated by his grandson Akbar. |
| 2/19/2000 | 18 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai. |
| 6/15/1990 | Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC. |
| 6/22/1994 | Law for the betterment of women introduced. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 11/20/1999 | Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi. |
| 4/21/1990 | 18 more ministers added in the National Front Ministry. |
| 1/18/1985 | Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held. |
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