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Historical Event on 2/21/1952

General Election ( 1st) of India ends.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1954President issues an order extending application of Indian Constitution to Kashmir with the concurrence of the State government.
3/30/1913B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born.
11/16/1999Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'.
6/3/1997Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet.
1/20/1994Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
9/3/1999India launches a new phase of military modernisation after the Kargil conflict.
7/21/1658Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
2/12/2000Ashok Shandilya wins the men's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore.