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Historical Event on 8/21/2000

Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/29/1992Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship.
6/28/1975As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.
12/24/1932The third and last Round Table conference on India ends. It was was held in London.
2/14/1970Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization.
2/6/2000''Water'' shooting stopped following suicide by a Shiv Sena activist; and director, Ms. Deepa Mehta asked to leave Varanasi.
1/26/1957Ashok Omprakash Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), was born in Amritsar.
10/12/1935Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born
10/19/1970First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
1/26/199921 dalits are gunned down by the Ranbit Sena in Jahanabad district in Bihar.