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Historical Event on 2/21/1997

J. M. Lyngdoh appointed Election Commissioner.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/24/1992Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.
4/8/1894Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
2/14/1929Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah (1526-30), prince and founder of Mughal dynasty in India, was born.
12/28/1981New Government led by the Congress (I) leader K. Karunakaran installed in Kerala.
12/27/1996Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award.
8/5/1905Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born.
1/23/1965Indian first alloy and steel plant in the public sector started in Durgapur; alloy and steel plant limited project started.
3/10/1998A. B. Vajpayee agrees to form a government with 252 members including the BJP and it's allies.