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Historical Event on 11/21/1963
First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/1958 | Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais. |
| 12/6/1929 | British Viceroy meets with Indian leaders to discuss dominion status for India. |
| 11/9/1998 | India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 12/16/1980 | Fisher Wealthy Hornsinger, an American social worker and who worked for Adult Education in India, passed away. |
| 1/31/1992 | The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body. |
| 12/27/1996 | Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award. |
| 4/16/1930 | Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000. |
| 8/29/1975 | Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away. |
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