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Historical Event on 10/21/1762
Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1807-11), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/25/1951 | First General Election of India begins. |
| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 1/1/1980 | This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"". |
| 10/16/1968 | Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene. |
| 3/1/1914 | Minto Gilbert Jhon Alieat, former viceroy of India, passed away. |
| 7/18/1987 | Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet. |
| 12/6/2000 | A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, said, ""The Ayodhya agitation was an 'expression of nationalist feelings' and the ""task has remained unfinished |
| 1/15/1996 | Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996. |
| 6/7/1989 | Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years. |
| 6/17/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991). |
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