Indian History

 

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 96.

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 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.