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Historical Event on 12/21/1881
Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
| 5/25/1996 | DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 4/17/1975 | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras. |
| 5/29/1965 | Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 4/9/1783 | Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India. |
| 1/12/1901 | Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 7/26/1991 | Tamil Nadu and Karnataka observe bandh over Cauvery water issue. |
| 7/12/2000 | 67 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb. |
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