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Historical Event on 7/21/1934
Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1928 | C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'. |
| 10/10/1964 | Gurbachan Singh Randhawa sets record for 110m Her. in 14.09s at Tokyo. |
| 8/8/2000 | The Government appoints Air Marshal P. Rajkumar to head the court of enquiry to probe the Alliance Air crash near Patna. |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 2/24/1950 | G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 3/16/1946 | India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'. |
| 3/16/1946 | Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies. |
| 2/20/1928 | Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born. |
| 1/1/1985 | United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"". |
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