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Historical Event on 7/21/1906
W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/16/1858 | Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged. |
| 3/7/1911 | Sachchitanand Hiranand Vatsyayan, (Agyeya), modern Hindi literary journalist, freedom fighter and the winner of Jnanpith Award of 1979, was born. |
| 3/29/1978 | Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer, 8 Tests for India and 229 runs, passed away. |
| 7/4/1999 | S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode. |
| 11/11/1973 | India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi. |
| 5/14/1992 | LTTE banned in India. |
| 8/17/1780 | Indian Governor General Warren Hastings duel with Francis to settle personal and official quarrels. Francis was wounded but survived. |
| 8/17/1780 | Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort. |
| 2/11/1933 | The outcome of the conference was that diarchy in the province was abolished, federal system was established in the center, Sindh was separated from Bombay, communal awards were started by the Prime Minister of Britain Sir Ramsay McDonald and White Paper on Indian reforms was published in 1933. |
| 5/24/1875 | Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'. |
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