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Historical Event on 2/21/1996

Japanese encephalitis', caused by virus transmitted by mosquitoes, claims 21 lives in Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/12/1952Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament.
10/18/1995Baby Naaz (Anuradha Bhakkar), famous child actor, died.
9/14/1997Catholic churches in Kerala introduce the system of serving the holy Eucharist in the palm of the faithful instead of on the tongue.
2/1/1881Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
3/27/1878Britishers sent Indian soldiers to Malta considering that the Russian would attack.
11/14/1914Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
7/6/1992The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers.
1/25/2000The Government awards Padma Vibhushan to R.K. Narayan, Dr.M.S. Gill; Padma Bhushan for Rajnikant and Padmashri for A.R. Rehman.
6/13/1996Ramakrishna Hegde, JD leader and former Karnataka CM, expelled from the party for 6 years by JD president Laloo Prasad Yadav for anti-party activities.
12/4/1894Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).