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Historical Event on 1/21/1910
Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1917 | Ram Gopal, great Indies /English classical dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain), was born. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 2/15/1920 | Kanti Mehta, trade unionist, was born at Calcutta. |
| 2/27/1996 | Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit. |
| 11/11/1979 | President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India. |
| 2/16/1969 | Mirza Ghalib centenary stamp released. |
| 11/16/1995 | The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion. |
| 6/27/2000 | The Clinton administration rejects a demand by 21 U.S. Congressmen for declaring India a terrorist state in the wake of attacks on Christian priests and churches. |
| 10/21/1997 | RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates. |
| 10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
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