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Historical Event on 2/21/1990
The Bombay Sappers join the club of the select few, who received colours from the President of India (21-2-90).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1997 | Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs. |
| 11/5/1928 | R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 11/5/1928 | Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born. |
| 5/28/1930 | Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing. |
| 2/16/1980 | The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 3/16/1945 | Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away. |
| 7/1/1992 | Major changes in Exim policy-farming and repacking included under the definition of 'manufacturer'. |
| 1/10/1896 | Gangadhar Kelkar, founder of famous Raja Kelkar Museum at Pune Dinkar, was born. |
| 9/11/1954 | Ram Naresh, editor and Hindi author, was born. |
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