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Historical Event on 2/21/1952
General Election ( 1st) of India ends.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/25/1982 | India's first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan. |
| 4/21/1995 | Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful. |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 2/9/1993 | Silver prices crash as the govt allows passengers to import upto 100 k and reduces customs duty on 35 baggage items from 255 to 150 \%. |
| 8/23/1872 | Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, leader, social reformer and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, was born at Kanuparthi village in Ongole district in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
| 4/23/1929 | The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime. |
| 4/16/1976 | The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth. |
| 7/29/1987 | India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play. |
| 11/21/1962 | India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India. |
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