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Events for March 21

21-March-1791	Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis.
21-March-1836	National Library was established.
21-March-1916	Ustad Bismilla Khan, clarionett Master, was born at Dumraon in Bihar.
21-March-1921	Indian National Congress decided it's Flag.
21-March-1934	Buta Singh, former Home Minister of India, was born.
21-March-1937	Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born.
21-March-1939	Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.
21-March-1957	India's national calender came into force.
21-March-1966	Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service.
21-March-1971	Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
21-March-1973	Yashwant Ramkrishna Date, great Marathi dictionary creator, passed away.
21-March-1976	The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new gov
21-March-1977	Internal Emergency, promulgated on June 25, 1975, withdrawn by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
21-March-1979	The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
21-March-1979	Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.
21-March-1982	Nadmuri Tarak Rama Rao forms Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh.
21-March-1992	India's second submarine 'Shankul' joined Navy.
21-March-1993	The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM.
21-March-1994	Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi.
21-March-1995	A.K. Antony elected CM of Kerala.
21-March-1995	Lok Sabha passes Patent Bill by amending the Patent (Amendment) Act 1970.
21-March-1996	PSLV-D3 launched successfully.
21-March-1996	Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
21-March-1997	Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts.
21-March-1997	Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura.
21-March-1997	Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
21-March-1997	Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.
21-March-1998	Jaswant Singh is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after the resignation of Prof. Madhu Dandavate.
21-March-2000	The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz.