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Historical Event on 1/21/1908

Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1989Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away.
9/25/1914Devilal, former deputy Prime Minister of India and leader of farmers, was born.
4/26/1841Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk.
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
11/29/1947The Nizam of Hyderabad said that he would not consider acceding to either dominion, but would agree to a 'standstill arrangement' with India. The agreement is accepted by the Indian government.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
8/4/1845Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay.
7/4/1760Meeran, Mir Jaffer's son, accidently died on the banks of Ganga near Patna due to lightning.
9/30/1989INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay.