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Historical Event on 1/21/1952
Indian National Congress party wins the 1st General Election of India under the ledearship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/14/1905 | Durga Khote, Marathi stage artist and actress, was born. |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 11/5/1995 | Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
| 10/18/1995 | Baby Naaz (Anuradha Bhakkar), famous child actor, died. |
| 6/18/1956 | New Hindu Succession Act was passed. |
| 7/20/1898 | Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat. |
| 2/1/1969 | Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta. |
| 4/4/1932 | Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni alias ""Bapu Nadkarni"", cricketer (economical Indian slow left-armer 1956-68), was born in Nasik, Maharashtra. |
| 3/15/1998 | Mr. Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. The number of MPs supporting the formation of a government by the BJP stands at 264 in a house of 539, just short of the working majority of 270. However, the President sees the figure as crossing the half-way mark as the Telugu Desam decides to remain neutral. Earlier, the Congress(I) conveys to the President its decision not to stake claim to form a government. |
| 1/18/1994 | India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington. |
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