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Historical Event on 3/21/1957
India's national calender came into force.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/2/1957 | Central Warehouse Corporation established. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 8/4/1933 | Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order. |
| 7/1/1996 | RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%. |
| 4/22/1994 | Sushil, great Jain Muni Acharya, passed away. |
| 12/19/1988 | Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died. |
| 4/21/1938 | Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away. |
| 4/17/1946 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away. |
| 4/17/1946 | 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). |
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