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Historical Event on 10/21/1762
Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1807-11), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/17/1938 | Dilip Purushottam Chitre, famous Marathi poet, story writer, critic and Sahitya Academy awardee, was born. |
| 1/1/1944 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, died. |
| 12/8/1857 | Mohsini from Delhi was hanged in jail. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 7/14/1656 | Guru Har Kishan, the eight Sikh, was born. |
| 5/13/1857 | Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP. |
| 2/1/1992 | Mohan Choty, comedy film actor, passed away. |
| 5/8/1962 | Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal. |
| 3/4/1990 | Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
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