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Historical Event on 3/21/1996

PSLV-D3 launched successfully.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/8/1980Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.
1/8/1872Hemchandra Goswami, ancient Asamia literature expert, historian, editor and poet, was born.
12/9/1993Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Congress CM of Himachal Pradesh.
12/5/1999India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.
5/11/1919Troops under General Barrett inflicted a sharp reverse today on the invading Afghans at Bagh Springs. The whole of the frontier area was up in arms with tribesmen threatening Landi Khotal and martial law being proclaimed in Peshawar. It was expected however that General Barrett, well equipped with guns and airplanes, would soon control the situation. Reports had been reaching London for some time about the possibility of an Afghan incursion following the murder of the pro-British Emir Habibullah. His third son, Amanullah Khan, who took over the throne, was known to be hostile toward the government of India.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
7/5/1905Lord Curzon joined the part of Bengal to Asam and divided Bengal.
3/22/1969The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
10/15/1946Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.