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Historical Event on 8/21/1997
Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1885 | Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born. |
| 11/19/2000 | The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress. |
| 10/22/1913 | Harumal Sadarangani, famous Sindhi writer, was born at Sind, Pakistan. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
| 6/9/1997 | Portfolio changes were effected by I K Gujral in Union Cabinet. |
| 8/3/1900 | Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born. |
| 4/10/1930 | Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay. |
| 9/12/1934 | Shantakumar Jagannath Sharma was born in Garhjamula, Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh). |
| 2/1/1827 | Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
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