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Historical Event on 9/21/1994

Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/21/1991R. Nagarajan, former Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, arrested for harbouring LTTE militants.
1/25/1983Telugu Desam swept to power in Andhra Pradesh.
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.
6/17/1756Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
9/10/1920Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.
5/15/1999The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
11/13/1917Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born.
2/21/1983More than 600 people were killed in the Indian state of Assam after student agitators protesting the immigration of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh attempted to stop state elections.