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Historical Event on 4/21/1998

The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1987Dr. M.G.Ramachandran, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, died. He was 70 yrs. He was posthumously awarded the 'Bharat Ratna' by the President of India. (17-1-90).
9/12/1962Raghav Rangayya, famous Hindi poet, story writer and novelist, died.
1/15/1988Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras thus creating a world Test record.
7/10/1991C. G. Pandit, famous scientist and Padmabhushan awardee, died.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
5/8/1910Tolstoy replies to Gandhiji that question of Passive Resistance is of greatest importance, not only for India but for humanity.
11/29/1999Delhi HC dismisses the CBI plea against Jain brothers in Hawala case.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
11/6/1913Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.