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Historical Event on 10/21/1998

Ajit alias Hamid Ali Khan (76), Hindi film actor, dies in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/8/1941Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.
10/5/1890Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born.
12/17/1974Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur.
2/12/1985Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
3/6/2000India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest.
2/1/1922Gandhiji gives notice to the Viceroy Lord Reading during Bardoli movement to inform him that he was intensifying his action and non-cooperation was to be escalated to Civil Disobedience.
7/24/1992Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.
4/12/1801William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta.
8/21/1879Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.