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Historical Event on 2/21/1899
Suryakant Tripathi `Nirala', famous Hindi poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/13/1911 | Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died. |
| 6/22/1993 | The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides. |
| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 9/13/1906 | Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh). |
| 6/19/1995 | In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government's majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 7/5/1981 | Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory. |
| 3/3/1891 | Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created. |
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