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Historical Event on 10/21/1947

The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/10/1991The Army Dental Corps celebrates its Golden Jubilee and proudly recounts its past glory.
4/23/1987Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.
3/30/1994Exim Policy streamlined to attract exporting community.
8/18/1907Madam Bhikaji Cama, addressed the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, Germany.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
3/7/1961Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
6/1/1997New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.
3/21/1921Indian National Congress decided it's Flag.
6/4/1986Masti Vyanktesh Iyengar, famous Kannad author and Gyanpeeth Puraskar awardee, passed away.
9/17/1929La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras.