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Historical Event on 3/21/2000

The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/18424,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul..
1/1/1973Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.
12/25/1763Suraj Mal Jat, Maharaja of Bharatpur, was killed by Najib-ud -Daulah s troops.
9/30/1963The USSR openly louded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan's motives.
12/3/1979Dhyan Chand, famous master of Hockey and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
1/18/1995The 4-nation non-official initiative on Arms Reduction and Disarmament concludes with Goa Declaration (also called Shanghai-II).
9/16/1996J & K second phase poll for 34 seats.
6/15/1991About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.