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Historical Event on 8/21/1955
Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/9/1995 | 17 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas. |
| 10/28/1928 | M.G.K. Menon, Physics expert, was born. |
| 1/31/2000 | All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged. |
| 6/15/1947 | All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi. |
| 10/4/1992 | D. M. Sutar, freedom fighter and senior journalist, died. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 2/13/1945 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 9/9/1941 | Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad. |
| 5/11/1919 | Troops under General Barrett inflicted a sharp reverse today on the invading Afghans at Bagh Springs. The whole of the frontier area was up in arms with tribesmen threatening Landi Khotal and martial law being proclaimed in Peshawar. It was expected however that General Barrett, well equipped with guns and airplanes, would soon control the situation. Reports had been reaching London for some time about the possibility of an Afghan incursion following the murder of the pro-British Emir Habibullah. His third son, Amanullah Khan, who took over the throne, was known to be hostile toward the government of India. |
| 1/30/1959 | Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai. |
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