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Historical Event on 11/21/1973
Seth Govinddas, M.P. of Jabalpur, was honoured in the Central Hall of Parliament for completion of 50 years in Parliament, which was an unprecedented record.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1780 | Indian Governor General Warren Hastings duel with Francis to settle personal and official quarrels. Francis was wounded but survived. |
| 2/9/1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 runs on his debut match during the India vs England cricket tournament at Delhi. |
| 4/14/1979 | Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras. |
| 8/11/1893 | First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra. |
| 8/16/1932 | Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation. |
| 8/1/2000 | 27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine. |
| 12/25/1946 | Gandhiji said, at Noakhali, ""I am being tested through and through"". |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 8/3/1970 | Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, first women career diplomat, appointed ambassador to Hungary. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
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