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Historical Event on 1/21/1969
First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1993 | Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy. |
| 9/5/1998 | Trishul and Akash test fired from Chandipore. |
| 6/30/1984 | W. R. Dhavle, editor, died. |
| 8/17/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka. |
| 7/27/1910 | Bande Ali Khan, great singer of `Beenkar' and `Kirana Gharana', passed away. |
| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 5/7/1973 | Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee). |
| 11/1/1966 | Haryana state was created from Punjab, and Chandigarh was declared as the Union Territory and capital of both Punjab and Haryana. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 6/23/1895 | Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta. |
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