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Historical Event on 3/21/1971

Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1990T. N. Seshan appointed CEC, and Mohan Dharia Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission.
3/29/1979Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
5/31/1947Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
9/20/1999T. R. Rajakumari (78), the dream girl of the Tamil silver screen for over two decades, died.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
2/18/1992Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
11/6/1997Chief Executives of public sector banks and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, after a meeting in New Delhi, decide to grant greater administrative autonomy to select public sector banks.
10/6/1997International Commodity Exchange Division of the India Pepper and Spice Trade Association in Kochi opened.