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Historical Event on 2/21/1990
The Bombay Sappers join the club of the select few, who received colours from the President of India (21-2-90).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1990 | Darbarsingh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away. |
| 11/7/1966 | Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives. |
| 6/7/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R. |
| 6/22/1910 | Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died. |
| 11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
| 4/22/1983 | Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85. |
| 7/26/1933 | Gandhiji went back to Sabarmati Ashram after his release from jail. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 7/1/1938 | Hariprasad Chaursia, famous flute player, was born. |
| 7/18/1980 | Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit. |
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