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Historical Event on 8/21/1987
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma elected the Vice President of India (1987 - 1992).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1995 | Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
| 9/28/1827 | A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery. |
| 3/9/1961 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 6/30/1823 | Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 1/9/1997 | John Major, British Prime Minister, addresses plenary session of the 'Partnership Summit' organised in Calcutta by the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
| 5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
| 5/28/1930 | Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing. |
| 8/2/1891 | Padmashree V. P. Karmarkar (Nanasaheb), famous sculptor, was born. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
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