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Historical Event on 3/21/1937

Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1947Gandhiji addresses Asian Relations Conference in Delhi.
1/30/1996Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
11/1/1956Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved.
2/12/194614 killed in Calcutta riots; Muslim leader Jinnah threatens civil war.
7/26/1975Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations.
2/26/1887Sir Benegal Narsingh Rao, an eminent lawyer and political leader, was born. He was the first Indian President of UN Security Council in 1950.
5/16/1911Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah.
3/4/1906Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi.