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Historical Event on 10/21/1996
Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1996 | Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award. |
| 1/22/1986 | Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted. |
| 4/12/1991 | Lok Sabha elections announced for May 20, 23, 26; Punjab Assam, J&K polls deferred. |
| 4/12/1991 | Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne. |
| 9/26/1923 | Dev Anand, film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 8/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
| 1/6/1947 | All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country. |
| 7/23/1904 | The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 11/16/1995 | Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras. |
| 5/1/1996 | Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case). |
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