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Historical Event on 8/21/1987
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma elected the Vice President of India (1987 - 1992).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/10/1986 | Pope John Paul II ends visit to India. |
| 3/16/1945 | Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away. |
| 9/20/1940 | Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born. |
| 11/20/1998 | V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 10/2/1957 | All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed. |
| 7/10/1999 | The Delhi police arrest Mohammad Javed alias Babu Bhai, an accused in the Jain Hawala case. |
| 4/23/1858 | Pandita Ramabai, social reformer and philosopher, was born in the State of Mysore. |
| 5/9/1874 | First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai. |
| 8/25/1997 | Neelam J. Singh rewrites her own discussion mark in the domestic circuit meet in Chennai. |
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