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Historical Event on 1/21/1994

India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/1954Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
9/23/1999India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control.
12/29/1959Durgapur Iron Plant inaugurated.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
8/5/1981Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J).
1/20/1996The Indian Army conducted United Nation Peacekeeping Keeping Operations in New Delhi from 20 to 26 Jan 1996, wherein delegates from UN HQ and 17 foreign countries of the Asia-Pacific region participated. The Under Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, was the chief guest.
9/20/1999Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.