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Historical Event on 10/21/1577
Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 2/19/1993 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President. |
| 7/3/1998 | Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
| 1/10/1986 | Pakistan decides to lift 8-year-old ban on private trade with India. |
| 7/26/1933 | Gandhiji went back to Sabarmati Ashram after his release from jail. |
| 7/6/1992 | The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 1/29/1983 | Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns. |
| 4/11/1906 | K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/14/1907 | P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born. |
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