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2007       68 people were killed in the Samjhauta Express going from Delhi to Lahore.

1905       Shyamji Krishnavarma founded the India Home Rule Society in London in 1905.

1911       The world’s first official airmail delivery took place on February 18, 1911, in Sangam, India.

1964       The Royal Indian Navy (Navy) rebellion occurred in 1946 in Mumbai.

1971       India established its first satellite contact with Britain in 1971 through the Arvi satellite station.

1979       The US gave India a check for Rs 1664 crore in 1979, which is considered to be the largest check in the world.

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1891       Daily publication of Amrit Bazar Patrika started.

1630       Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the first ruler of the Maratha Empire, was born.

1389       In 1389, Sultan Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq II of Delhi was assassinated.

1986       In 1986, the first computerized railway reservation ticket was introduced in India.

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1987       Mizoram, India’s northeastern state got the status of 23rd state. It was a part of the state of Assam before it became a union territory.

1983       A large-scale violence erupted before the assembly elections to be held in the north eastern state of Assam. It also led to the death of 600 people.

1968       The first heart transplant was done in 1968 at KEM Hospital in Mumbai.

1950       In 1950, Sharat Chandra Bose, the elder brother of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, passed away.

1999       Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a historic bus tour of Pakistan in 1999.

1999       The sports channel started on Doordarshan in 1999.

1986       Himachal Pradesh became the 24th state of the Indian Union in 1986.

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1996       Birth of great poet and writer Suryakant Tripathi Nirala in 1896.

1959       Press Club of India established in 1959 in New Delhi.

1999       Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration in

2008       On February 21, 2008, Anil Ambani’s Anupam Global Soft was acquired by Reliance Communication,

2008       Private Airlines Jet Airways entered into a strategic alliance with Air Canada on 21 February 2008.

2013       A series of bomb blasts took place in Hyderabad on February 21, 2013, in which around 17 people died and 119 were badly injured.

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1944       Mahatma Gandhi’s wife Kasturba Gandhi died.

1958       Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the country’s first Education Minister, died.

1999       India’s popular economist Jagdish Bhagwati was appointed as the head of the Center for Indian Politics Economy in Columbia on February 22, 1999.

2006       Japan prohibited imports of all poultry products, including meat and eggs, from India in 2006.

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2006       In 1952, the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act was passed.

2010       India’s famous painter MF Hussain was granted citizenship of Qatar in 2010.

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1882       The infectious disease TB was identified to this day.

2001       Pakistan agrees to negotiate nuclear deterrence with India.

2009       Central government announced reduction in service tax and excise duty.

1822       The world’s first Swami Narayan Temple was inaugurated in Ahmedabad in 1822.

1924       Mahatma Gandhi released from jail in 1924.