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Historical Event on 8/21/2000
Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/16/1922 | Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska. |
| 7/24/1994 | Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India. |
| 5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
| 11/1/1983 | Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in re |
| 8/5/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 2/20/1928 | Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born. |
| 11/13/1995 | The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. |
| 2/18/1994 | India rejects OIC offer to mediate on Kashmir. |
| 12/30/1949 | India recognizes People's Republic of China. |
| 8/5/1965 | M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born. |
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