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Historical Event on 8/21/1986

Nine-member Cong-MNF coalition ministry headed by MNF President Laldenga sworn-in in Aizawl.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1906First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
1/4/1995IAF batch (Angel of Mercy) returns from Somalia after 16 months of stay and 700 sorties.
1/2/1948Nehru threatens Indian action to stop Pakistani raids into Kashmir.
10/18/1996Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi to be the venue for the trial of former PM Rao.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
7/7/1910'Bharat History Research Mandal' was established.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.
1/20/1996The Indian Army conducted United Nation Peacekeeping Keeping Operations in New Delhi from 20 to 26 Jan 1996, wherein delegates from UN HQ and 17 foreign countries of the Asia-Pacific region participated. The Under Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, was the chief guest.
6/3/1901Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam.
7/5/1916Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore.