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Historical Event on 3/21/1997
Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/9/1961 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 3/3/1943 | Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days. |
| 7/13/1957 | Behram Navrosji Karanjia, leading merchant and director of various companies, passed away. |
| 8/7/1999 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state. |
| 5/30/1895 | Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, great historian in Goa, was born. |
| 7/23/1918 | Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 10/3/1831 | Britishers captured Mysore. |
| 2/18/1911 | Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction. |
| 1/6/1664 | Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat. |
| 3/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
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