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Historical Event on 7/21/2000
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/23/1926 | Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid. |
| 1/7/1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 12/10/1996 | Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries. |
| 6/3/1818 | Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends. |
| 2/12/1985 | Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people. |
| 11/2/2000 | John Wright is appointed India coach by the BCCI. |
| 7/31/1980 | Muhammad Rafi, famous playback singer, died at the age of 40. |
| 4/27/1854 | First telegram was sent between Mumbai and Pune. |
| 6/5/1882 | Cyclonic Storm & floods in Arabian Sea hit Bombay. About 100,000 people drowned. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
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