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Historical Event on 11/21/1947

First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/13/1772Narayan Rao became the Peshwa at Satara.
7/11/1997Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai.
4/23/1913Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
9/15/1953S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.
7/15/1902Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
6/1/1964Rashid Ghulam Muhammad Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, better known for Lamba incident), was born in Sabarkantha.
1/19/1994CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
10/28/1997Cabinet permits RBI to issue rupee notes of 1000 denomination.
9/3/1994The government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.