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Historical Event on 5/21/1996

M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/6/1985Sanjeev Kumar, film actor, died.
8/13/1993All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
12/9/1993Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Congress CM of Himachal Pradesh.
7/1/1968Asia's biggest nuclear research lab started in New Delhi.
7/24/1992Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
1/23/1977Janata Party was formed. Congress Sangathan, Jansangh, Bhartiya Lokdal and Samajwadi Party decided to merge and create Janata Party.
8/14/1896Gandhiji published ""The Green Pamphlet"" at Rajkot and then toured to Bombay, Madras, Poona and Calcutta educating Indians in regard to grievances of South African Indians.
11/29/1869Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra.