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Historical Event on 4/21/1994

Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
10/9/1968Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
1/5/1952John Hope Victor Alexander, Viceroy of India (1936-43), died at the age of 64.
1/18/1913Gandhiji refers in ''Indian Opinion'' the possibility of return home to India by mid-year.
8/13/1928Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
1/8/1925The first All India Art & Craft Exhibition was inaugurated by Sir William Marries, Governor UP at Kaisar Baug, Lucknow.
11/5/1956Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.