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Historical Event on 7/21/2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/31/1997Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore.
6/11/1964Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great mathematician of India, submitted his thesis to Royal Society of London.
8/21/1997Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
5/18/1998India may take the US to WTO.
12/23/1969Armstrong and Aldrin collected Moon rock, which was kept on exhibition in New Delhi.
12/23/1969Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born.
11/16/1860First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa.
3/13/1958Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.
8/1/1998The DMK condemns the BJP-led coalition Government's decision to set up a Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency and rejects the Action Taken Report on the final report of the Jain Commission with reference to Mr. M. Karunanidhi.
5/9/1992Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.