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Historical Event on 9/21/1954
Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1990 | Mrs.Sheela Flather, an Indian national, becomes the first Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords. |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
| 12/19/1860 | Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 1/28/2000 | Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 3/22/1969 | The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated. |
| 9/20/1999 | Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 7/31/1916 | Mohanlal Sukhadia, chief minister of Rajasthan and freedom fighter, was born at Jhalawar. |
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