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Historical Event on 1/21/1993
Biren Roy, follower of Netaji Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/23/1968 | Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90), was born in Delhi. |
| 12/1/1965 | Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan. |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 8/20/1885 | First meeting of the Indian National Congress held. |
| 9/15/1997 | Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 8/10/1904 | Japanese troups were defeated by the Russian Amry at Port Aurther. |
| 9/26/1946 | Gandhiji was interviewed with Wavell. |
| 3/19/1973 | Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
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