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Historical Event on 9/21/1995

Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/7/1965U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan.
3/11/1963Mahomed Nissar, 6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts @ 28.28, passed away.
5/17/1887Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.
2/27/1912Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj', great Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, was born.
2/9/1951The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
3/1/1909First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established.
2/23/1993Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).
4/10/1997Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.