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Historical Event on 10/21/1999
B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 10/14/1992 | 10 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah. |
| 4/1/1878 | Calcutta Museum was opened for general public. |
| 4/8/1991 | Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief. |
| 2/15/1936 | Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, freedom fighter, passed away. He was known for his patriotism and zeal for constructive work and was a forceful and emotional orator and debater and an eminent writer in Assamese litrature. He was also a musician and composed good number of patriotic poems and songs. |
| 1/30/1903 | Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta. |
| 6/21/1940 | Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), passed away. |
| 12/3/1970 | Rajendra Agriculture University established at Bihar. |
| 2/14/1994 | The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires. |
| 9/1/1798 | England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India. |
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