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Historical Event on 2/21/1878

Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/7/1955Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
11/25/1956Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians.
11/25/1956Amir Timur left Delhi. He took the title 'Emperor of India' and recrossed the Indus on March 11.
5/28/1925Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born.
10/12/2000A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
4/6/1942During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
9/25/1927Jagmohan Amirchand was born in Hafizabad (now in Pakistan).
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.