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Historical Event on 8/21/1986

Nine-member Cong-MNF coalition ministry headed by MNF President Laldenga sworn-in in Aizawl.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/2/1997A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property.
3/30/1923New financial measures come into force, including restoration of Salt Tax.
1/9/1841John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris.
2/19/1995National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
6/13/1999The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.
6/26/1995Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population.
11/11/2000Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
1/18/1932Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur.
7/16/1996The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'.