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Historical Event on 1/21/1952

Indian National Congress party wins the 1st General Election of India under the ledearship of Jawaharlal Nehru.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/1997Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai.
3/9/1863Laxman Bapuji Kolhatkar (Bhaurao), famous singer and actor of Marathi theatre, was born.
3/9/1863Akbar attacked on Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
9/28/1909Jairaj, famous film actor, was born. His first film was 'Sparkling Youth' (1930). He was a receipant of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Some of his films are 'Fight unto Death', 'All for love', 'Bhawani No Bhog', 'Pearl', 'Queen of Faries', 'The Enemy', 'My Hero'.
10/31/1999Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award.
8/3/199835 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed.
4/1/1973India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction.
6/8/1999ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively.
2/22/1978Judge Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 11/07/1985.