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Historical Event on 2/21/1672
A French squadron under De la Haye encountered a fleet of the Dutch, who were in hostility with the French, near Cape Comorin.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1995 | 8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai. |
| 8/4/1993 | Tarabai Bapat, daughter-in-law of revolutionary Senapati Bapat, died. |
| 6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
| 3/17/1982 | President's rule in Kerala. |
| 10/22/1912 | Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits. |
| 3/25/1931 | 50 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted. |
| 11/3/1999 | Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M). |
| 4/6/1606 | Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra. |
| 3/26/1969 | Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize |
| 7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
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