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Historical Event on 10/21/1999

B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1992Five selected regional TV channels go national by direct linking to INSAT.
7/21/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.
9/11/1958India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.
12/15/1974Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died.
4/5/1961Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs.
4/5/1961Banka Mahar, 'bhagwatbhakt', passed away by taking Samadhi.
4/23/1913Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
10/28/2000The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985.
10/9/2000The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.