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Historical Event on 2/21/1878
Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris.
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| 5/17/1980 | V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs. |
| 6/18/1991 | Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority. |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 2/5/1919 | Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born. |
| 2/5/1919 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 6/17/1913 | Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born. |
| 11/11/1994 | The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act. |
| 11/27/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg. |
| 10/19/1888 | Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
| 9/16/1995 | Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State. |
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