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Historical Event on 5/21/1966
General Election (11th) of India ends.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/4/1992 | India and Russia sign a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation. |
| 5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
| 1/17/1922 | T. A. Pai, former Central Minister and bank expert, was born. |
| 5/28/1968 | Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name. |
| 5/4/1989 | Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 2/20/1953 | India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA. |
| 9/25/1990 | S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died. |
| 10/21/1996 | Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India. |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 11/10/1909 | Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke. |
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