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Historical Event on 6/21/1994

The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1994Bipinchandra Joshi, cheif of Army and General, passed away at the age of 54 years.
11/18/1772Madhav Rao Peshwa (the 4th peshwa ruler) died at the age of 28. Narayanrao succeeded him.
1/1/1986Fourth Pay Commission implemented.
12/28/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.
8/27/1859Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, was born.
10/2/1986Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
10/15/1996Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.
5/6/1922Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48.
12/28/1921Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
1/26/1950India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation.