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Historical Event on 8/21/1997

Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
12/17/1715Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
9/7/1968Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died.
4/23/1751Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born.
3/25/1905Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born.
9/19/1991Lok Sabha passes unanimously the Places of Worship Special Provisions Bill for maintaining the status quo of religious places as on 1947.
11/14/1997Nisha Millet sets national mark in the 100m freestyle in the national aquatics.
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
1/26/2000Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu.