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Historical Event on 3/21/1939

Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1959Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
8/15/1947Indian Independence Day.
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
2/21/1990The Bombay Sappers join the club of the select few, who received colours from the President of India (21-2-90).
5/1/1915Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.
1/7/1900Raghukul Tilak, educationist and social worker, was born at Meerut, UP.
4/30/1981C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-02-1985.
9/26/1820Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal.
10/22/1947There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.
10/20/1991Pandit Kalyandas Mahaprasad, famous Kathak dancer, died.