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Historical Event on 9/21/1997
Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/21/1881 | Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P. |
| 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. |
| 9/26/1919 | Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held. |
| 3/3/1839 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 2/9/1985 | Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away. |
| 6/13/1932 | Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died. |
| 9/30/2000 | India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant. |
| 11/20/1946 | Gandhiji starts tour without party. |
| 8/22/1984 | R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987). |
| 12/27/1931 | 150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province. |
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