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Historical Event on 12/21/1952

Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/1977Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
3/25/1994Buta Singh exonerated by the Akal Takht after 9 years.
10/26/1935Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
3/30/1994Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
11/15/1937Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska
8/5/1992The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there.
3/8/1997G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress.