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Historical Event on 8/21/2000
Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/18/1867 | Ganganendranath Tagore, great painter, patriot and artist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 9/18/1867 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 1/22/1922 | Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 3/10/1995 | Ashok Padbidri, famous journalist and editor, died. |
| 5/7/1950 | Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 5/2/1769 | Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 12/4/1998 | Sonia Gandhi said the Congress(I) was prepared to meet the challenge of contesting a mid-term poll if it was forced on the country. But it would not take any initiative to pull down the BJP-led coalition. |
| 12/10/1989 | Janardan Swami passed away. |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
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