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Historical Event on 1/21/1993

Chander Pal at Bangalore sets record for High Jump in 2.17.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/29/1987India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play.
11/17/1991Sharad Pawar wins in Baramati.
5/9/1997Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar.
12/22/1887Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
7/16/1992Shankar Dayal Sharma is appointed President.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
5/18/1926Naranjan Bhagat, famous Gujrathi poet, was born.
1/12/1924Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.
7/3/1661Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II.
5/20/1972Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.