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Historical Event on 12/21/1952

Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/5/2000A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, defends the Gujarat Government's order lifting the ban on Government employees from participating in RSS activities.
3/22/1885Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.
9/23/1992Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
7/5/2000The Prime Minister rules out restoring pre-1953 status to Jammu and Kashmir.
9/10/1924K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode.
5/4/1993Income Tax exemption limit raised to Rs.30,000; Customs duty on certain drugs reduced.
6/3/1818Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends.
5/15/1999The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.
12/9/1993Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Congress CM of Himachal Pradesh.