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Historical Event on 8/21/1995
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1986 | India cricket team score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur. |
| 6/24/1897 | Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat. |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 4/17/1997 | Biju Patnaik, 81, Janata Dal leader and important personality in Orissa politics, died. |
| 7/30/1883 | Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
| 8/6/1951 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died. |
| 1/9/1976 | President suspends seven freedoms guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution. |
| 4/15/1948 | Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states. |
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