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Historical Event on 7/21/2000
A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/2000 | J.H. Patel, (71), senior Janata Dal (U) leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister, died in Bangalore. |
| 1/1/1880 | Money order system was introduced. |
| 2/28/1930 | Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates. |
| 2/8/1912 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away. |
| 10/19/1888 | Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
| 5/13/1998 | India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan. |
| 1/12/1992 | India and Russia sign a new political treaty. |
| 11/3/1990 | Manmohan Krishna, famous film actor, passed away. |
| 1/24/1980 | E. K. Nayanar forms Government in Kerala. |
| 1/24/1980 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
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