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Historical Event on 5/21/1994

Sushmita Sen (Miss India), 18, was crowned as the 43rd Miss Universe.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/25/1899Narhar Gangadhar Apte, great Hindi writer, was born at Satara.
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
5/8/1910Tolstoy replies to Gandhiji that question of Passive Resistance is of greatest importance, not only for India but for humanity.
4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
1/1/1920P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi.
12/15/1675Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him.
12/15/1675Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects.
11/3/19843,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.
6/1/1955India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.