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On May 21, 1991, former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female LTTE suicide bomber while campaiging in Madras. He was the elder son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi and was the seventh Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Nehru-Gandhi family). Rajiv was also the youngest Prime Minister of India at the age of 40.
Other historical accounts on this day:
In 1881, humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, an organisation established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross.
In 1988, in an attempt to consolidate his own power and ease political and ethnic tensions in the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses the Communist Party leaders in those two republics.
In 1940, Nazis killed ''unfit'' people in East Prussia. A special unit carries out its mission-and murders more than 1500 hospital patients.
In 1972, Michelangelo's Piet in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal. (With research inputs) |
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