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Historical Event on 10/21/1916

Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1962Establishment of Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
4/23/1795East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
2/25/1962India Congress Party wins elections.
5/17/1957Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
5/15/1949Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
7/13/1990Boby Talyarkhan, famous sports critic and author, died.
10/1/1998Anxiety in stock market after UTI's US-64 scheme is reported to have paid dividend, eating out of its capital.