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Historical Event on 7/21/1962
Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.
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| 1/7/1928 | Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal. |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 9/3/1931 | Kanhaiya Prasad Sharan, politician, journalist and social worker, was born at Muzaffapur, Bihar. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 2/13/1977 | Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away. |
| 5/26/1957 | Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay. |
| 11/15/1999 | The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana. |
| 10/12/2000 | A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'. |
| 3/4/1995 | Kakrapar nuclear power station's second unit located near Surat synchronised to the western grid after mandatory tests. |
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