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Historical Event on 10/21/1950
China invades Tibet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1992 | Dr. M.M.Thomas, Nagaland Governor, removed from office. |
| 5/21/1984 | Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay. |
| 6/26/1906 | M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras. |
| 6/1/1933 | Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published. |
| 10/5/1878 | First Indian circus was played by Vishnu Moreshwar Chhatre of Sangli at Mumbai. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
| 1/26/1927 | Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 1/14/1926 | Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka. |
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