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Historical Event on 1/21/1997

First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1934Justice Sujata Manohar was born.
6/21/1999Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
10/14/1994Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died.
7/24/1998India signs a deal with Russia for purchasing the aircraft-carrier.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
9/1/1668Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
9/14/1949Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate.
8/14/1968Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000.