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Historical Event on 1/21/1922

Juda Reuben, cricket Test umpire for 10 tests from 1969-77, was born in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1899Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
2/7/1795Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies.
4/30/1936Mahatma Gandhi started staying in Sevagram Ashram at Wardha in the Central Provinces, making it his headquarters.
11/1/1950First Indigenous Steam Engine from Chitranjan Rail Factory railed out.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
8/6/1989Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour.
9/6/1965Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
8/17/1958Sir John Hubert Marshal, excavator of Mohan-Jo-Daro and Takshashila, died.