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Historical Event on 3/21/1997

Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/1995K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha.
11/5/1870Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.
4/15/1927Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born.
1/15/1997Pakistan's pilotless surveillance aircraft intrudes into Indian air space for the first time.
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
3/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
3/25/1971Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
7/5/1993Supreme Court dismisses the stay petition of Union Government regarding lifting of ban on the RSS and the Bajrang Dal by the Babri Tribunal.