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Historical Event on 2/21/1991
Opposition boycotts the President's address as a protest against the dismissal of Tamil Nadu government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1996 | Maharashtra govt. winds up the inquiry commission headed by Justice Srikrishna set up to probe the communal riots in Mumbai in Dec. 92-Jan. 93. |
| 11/11/2000 | Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985. |
| 3/28/1916 | Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 10/4/1974 | India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals. |
| 9/9/1923 | First magazine 'Kiran' was published by Ravikiran Mandal. |
| 9/15/1926 | Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes. |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 6/1/1998 | The Prasar Bharati Bill is introduced in the Lok Sabha to revive the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990. |
| 12/20/1904 | Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born. |
| 3/20/1602 | United East India Company of the Netherlands i.e. Dutch East India Company was chartered by States-General of Holland. During its 96-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies. |
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