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Historical Event on 9/21/2000
J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
| 9/4/1967 | 6.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people. |
| 3/25/1997 | Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 11/15/1991 | Import curbs on capital goods relaxed. |
| 9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 5/20/1994 | K. Brahmananda Reddy, 83, former Andhra Pradesh CM, passed away in Hyderabad. |
| 10/28/1997 | Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore. |
| 12/15/1894 | Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born. |
| 10/6/1998 | Railways wins the BOB-Senior National Hockey championship for women defeating Haryana in the final at Chennai. |
| 11/1/1983 | Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in re |
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