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Historical Event on 7/21/1977
K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/9/1992 | Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP. |
| 11/3/1948 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, delivered his maiden speech in United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) General Assembly. |
| 9/21/1948 | Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society. |
| 5/21/1930 | A raid of nationalists on salt works in Dharasana results in 630 casualties and the arrest of Mrs. Naidy, leader of the civil disobedience campaign. |
| 12/15/1932 | Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 3/22/1914 | M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura. |
| 10/31/1994 | 26 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/26/1813 | Swati Tirunal Ramavarma, outstanding composer of Carnatic music in Kerala, was born in a royal family of Travancore. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 5/9/1919 | Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi. |
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