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Historical Event on 7/21/1962

Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/11/1930Pandit Motilal Nehru renamed 'Anand Bhuvan' as 'Swaraj Bhawan' and handed it over to the people.
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
9/7/1947Gandhiji leaves Calcutta for Delhi; commences daily visits to riot-affected areas.
1/2/1757After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives.
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
8/21/2000Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91.
8/28/1993President's rule in J&K extended for another six months.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
5/2/1954Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.