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Historical Event on 11/21/1947
First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 7/26/1991 | Indian, UN Observer Mission in El Salvador joined (ONUSAL from Jul 1991 To Apr 1995). |
| 1/19/1910 | Vinayak Damodar Karnaki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, was born. |
| 1/1/1931 | Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki. |
| 7/24/1932 | Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan was established for the service of the sick and humanitarian activities. |
| 8/10/1855 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born. |
| 4/9/1993 | Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief. |
| 7/20/1993 | British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty. |
| 8/8/1955 | Dr. Homi J. Bhabha elected chairman of the international conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. |
| 10/2/2000 | Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey. |
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