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Historical Event on 2/21/1987

Pakistan President Gen. Zia visits India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1897Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.
12/11/1881Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram.
10/20/1962China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
1/28/1961Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore.
1/27/2000K.R. Narayanan, President, opposes any tinkering with the Constitution.
6/1/1992S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).
2/11/1996Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta.
9/5/1793Mir Kasim lost To Britishers near Rajmahal in battle of Udaynala.
7/18/1946U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.