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Historical Event on 5/21/1923

Keshavrao Kothavle `Lalit', editor of monthly magazine, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/16/1932Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
5/1/1922Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.
2/13/1856East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
8/20/1933Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast.
3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
5/19/1904Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
1/9/1841John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris.