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Historical Event on 1/21/1997

Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/3/19843,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.
6/1/1996H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.
5/29/1992Agni-India's IRB missile successfully test-fired from Orissa coast for the first time since May 22, 1989.
1/3/1975Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
6/6/1990GOI decides to extend validity of passports to 10 years.
3/21/1791Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis.
5/24/2000The Supreme Court rejects the proposal for setting up benches outside Delhi.
11/9/1972Laxmi Poruri, guntur India and tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park), was born.
11/9/1972Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.