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Historical Event on 7/21/1962

Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1990Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha .
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
9/24/1992India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi.
12/13/2000Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.
4/23/1959Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
12/30/1906The All India Muslim League was founded in Dacca by a group of big landlords which included Aga Khan III, The Nawab of Dacca and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk-Salimullah. They supported the Partition of Bengal and called for seperate Muslim electrorates and other safeguard for Muslims.
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
2/17/1994Bihar leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and Mizoram's Dr. C. Silvera inducted into Union Cabinet.