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Historical Event on 1/21/1997

Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/12/1894Busushottam Vishwanath Bapat, internationally famed Pali language expert, translator and editor, was born.
6/29/1901Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
12/3/1998Maganbhai Kasundra, (50), Gujarat Minister, dies following a heart attack at his residence in Gandhinagar.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
1/2/1992Central Ministers Cabinet approved that elections will take place after the death of any independent candidate.
6/15/1990Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
11/25/1975Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away.
4/23/1795East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.
2/25/1992Beant Singh sworn in as CM of Punjab.