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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
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
8/17/1985Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India.
1/12/1924Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.
6/13/1943Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
6/14/1880Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born.
12/27/1999PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan.
4/22/1923Babani Sheshagiri Pai, social worker and journalist, was born at Ankola in Karnataka.
10/2/1998Santanu Deb Barma of Tripura was chosen for Kabir Puraskar for her role in preventing violence and riots in some areas of the state in 1997.
6/30/1993AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF.
1/31/1997Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5).