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Historical Event on 8/21/1972

A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1660Baji Prabhu Deshpande, one of the warriors in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's kingdom, died.
8/1/2000Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
12/4/1898Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu.
4/1/1912The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.
10/19/1920Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
5/30/1985Earthquake in Srinagar.
10/29/1962China attacked India.
10/29/1962Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
11/13/1917Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born.