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Historical Event on 1/21/1983

R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1971Habib Muhammad died.
6/3/1947Evening newspaper 'Jay Hind' published.
8/20/1921The Mopla revolt, one of the important uprisings of India, was started at Kerala.
5/20/1992V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
10/21/2000Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.
9/17/1879E.V. Ramaswami Naicker, prominent leader of Dravid movement and social reformer, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
11/9/1909The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.