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Historical Event on 4/21/1995
Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/12/1794 | Alijabahadar Mahadaji Shinde passed away. |
| 9/21/1862 | Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telegu poet, playwright, story writer, critic and social reformer, was born. |
| 6/19/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party. |
| 9/20/1878 | Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies. |
| 11/27/1998 | India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 5/22/1953 | Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World). |
| 8/15/1947 | Hindu-Muslim association in Calcutta. |
| 6/8/1999 | ATP announced Paes-Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked doubles team. In individual doubles ranking, Bhupathi and Paes were No. 1 and 2 respectively. |
| 3/26/1969 | Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-), was born in Jalandhar. |
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