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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 |
| 5/13/1857 | Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP. |
| 1/20/1684 | Treaty between Marathas and Portuguese. |
| 3/28/1916 | Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 3/28/1916 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 12/25/1936 | Ismail Merchant, producer (Householder), was born in Bombay, India. |
| 10/4/1999 | Rest of India won the Zal Irani Trophy in Bangalore. |
| 4/1/1987 | Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution. |
| 2/18/1975 | Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away. |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 1/28/1877 | Saint Chokhoba passed away. |
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