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Historical Event on 1/21/1993
Chander Pal at Bangalore sets record for High Jump in 2.17.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/12/1947 | Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 9/15/1953 | S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly. |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
| 10/15/1949 | Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged. |
| 4/14/1990 | L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa. |
| 5/17/1993 | Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation. |
| 11/16/1835 | Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. (16 or19). |
| 3/1/1916 | Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta. |
| 4/23/1959 | Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
| 10/16/1896 | Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born. |
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