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Historical Event on 9/21/1994
Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1997 | 28th International Film Festival of India opens at Trivandrum. |
| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 1/10/1908 | Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal. |
| 2/25/1970 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away. |
| 10/9/1996 | PVN Rao granted anticipatory bail in St. Kitts forgery case till Oct. 14. |
| 7/3/1979 | Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started. |
| 4/30/1977 | Nine Congress-ruled states placed under President's rule. Janata Party formed. |
| 1/10/1897 | Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years. |
| 1/31/1960 | Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s. |
| 1/2/1905 | Jainendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist and patriot, was born. |
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