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Historical Event on 7/21/1984
Terrorists breach Bhakra canal in Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast. |
| 11/11/1991 | Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review. |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
| 6/22/1991 | M. Karunanidhi, DMK President, resigned from the Assembly. |
| 5/26/1948 | First ever trade agreement with Pakistan. |
| 12/10/1936 | England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 11/29/1926 | Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born. |
| 6/28/1924 | Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, passed away on June 28 at Calcutta. |
| 5/24/1992 | D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away. |
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