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Historical Event on 8/21/1991
Gopinath Mahant, famous Odissi litterateur and Gyanpeeth awardee, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1992 | Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award. |
| 9/24/1992 | Five selected regional TV channels go national by direct linking to INSAT. |
| 1/19/1932 | Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow. |
| 2/3/1977 | Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering. |
| 2/3/1900 | Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri, one of the founders of Organic Chemistry in India, was born at Kulittalai in Tamil Nadu. |
| 3/21/1994 | Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi. |
| 6/7/1965 | Ashutosh Kali, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 9/7/1995 | Mohammed Yousef Jameel, BBC stringer and special correspondent of The Asian Age, died in a parcel bomb explosion in Srinagar. |
| 9/14/1949 | Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate. |
| 9/23/1858 | Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died. |
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