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Historical Event on 2/21/1959

Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1912Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born.
5/23/1997The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh.
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
7/13/1916Ramkrishna Bakre (Tatya), veteran journalist and music critic, was born.
12/23/1889Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
2/25/2000The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order discharging the former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, Ms. Jayalalitha, from the two TANSI deal cases.
8/25/1992Mi-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35 Squadron and was renamed as 104-Helicopter Squadron.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
7/2/1993ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance.