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Historical Event on 3/21/1997

Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1996United Front Govt's Common Minimum Programme announced.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
10/6/1997I. K. Gujral, PM, begins visit to South Africa, which was the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister.
11/18/1839P Barron discovered Nainital and he was the British sugar merchant of Shahjahanpur.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.
10/30/1996ITC $100 million scam, the country's biggest ever FERA violation case, was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate.
2/11/1997A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
6/1/1993Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated.
1/11/1993Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.