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Historical Event on 7/21/2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/7/1980Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.
12/14/1985Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award.
5/9/1996J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.
6/30/1934Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
10/28/1999Insurance Bill is introduced amid protest in the Lok Sabha.
7/1/1989New Governors were appointed in five states. Gen. K. V. Krishna Rao became Governor for J&K.
7/12/1993West Bengal Governor Dr. Nurul Hasan, 72, died.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.
10/17/1994Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies.
5/4/1960Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale.