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Historical Event on 1/21/1999
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 9/18/1958 | Dr. Bhagwan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, passed away. |
| 10/15/1946 | Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India. |
| 3/27/2000 | Mohan Bagan lifts title in the National Football league in Calcutta. |
| 1/31/1946 | Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), was born in Calcutta. |
| 12/25/1997 | India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance. |
| 4/10/1997 | Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
| 4/13/1997 | Paes-Bhupathi corner doubles glory in the Gold Flake Open tennis in Chennai. |
| 5/17/1999 | Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it. |
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