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Historical Event on 7/21/1883
Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/29/1952 | India enters into a war with Japan. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 10/9/1949 | The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General. |
| 4/6/1992 | Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started. |
| 8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
| 1/31/1994 | Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism, died of leukemia. |
| 1/31/1994 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 4/10/1880 | C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born. |
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