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Historical Event on 10/21/2000
Seema 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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 10/20/1962 | The first IAFunit No. 2 squadron re-equipped with the Gnat at Ambalan and No.9 squadron soon followed suit. |
| 4/18/1959 | Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India. |
| 6/23/1984 | An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid. |
| 11/5/1915 | Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
| 7/17/1937 | Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95. |
| 12/31/1902 | Dr. Raghuvir, dictionary creator, having knowledge of Vedic Sanskrit, Tebiti, Chinese and Mongolian, was born. |
| 4/15/1996 | Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa. |
| 2/2/1915 | Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 8/12/1602 | Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. |
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