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Historical Event on 3/21/1996
Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/12/1990 | CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions. |
| 10/19/1905 | Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London. |
| 6/13/1943 | Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine. |
| 11/24/1969 | Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 9/6/1972 | Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player, passed away. |
| 11/17/1921 | Princes of Wales came to India. |
| 4/7/1920 | Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 9/25/1857 | Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins. |
| 4/26/1952 | India says U.N. may disintegrate if powers block consideration of issues in small countries. |
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