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Historical Event on 1/21/1882

Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1979Indian premier Charan Singh resigns.
10/22/1997Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
3/25/1898Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple.
4/7/1986Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.
6/21/1941Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.
4/6/1978Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by an innings and 193 runs to win Ranji Trophy.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
12/1/1998Dhian Singh (103), freedom fighter dies at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Army and was jailed a number of times during the freedom movement.
8/11/1908Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers.