21st AUGUST
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Events for August 21
Events for August 21
21-August-1540 | Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
21-August-1879 | Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
21-August-1931 | Pandit Vishnu Dingambar Paluskar, famous singer and the blind musician of Maharashtra, passed away. |
21-August-1955 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
21-August-1972 | A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction. |
21-August-1978 | Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
21-August-1981 | Dattatrey Balkrishna Kalelkar ""Kakasaheb"", freedom fighter, passed away at the age of |
21-August-1986 | Nine-member Cong-MNF coalition ministry headed by MNF President Laldenga sworn-in in Aizawl. |
21-August-1987 | Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma elected the Vice President of India (1987 - 1992). |
21-August-1988 | 500 killed near the Indo-Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
21-August-1990 | Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha . |
21-August-1991 | Gopinath Mahant, famous Odissi litterateur and Gyanpeeth awardee, died. |
21-August-1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
21-August-1997 | Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people. |
21-August-1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
21-August-2000 | Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91. |
21-August-2000 | Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee. |
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