Today Importance - 21st July
21-Jul-1658
Aurangzeb celebrates becoming emperor of the Mughal Empire in Delhi. He ascended the throne informally.
21-Jul-1883
Star Theatre opened in Calcutta.
21-Jul-1891
The great leader, journalist and freedom fighter Jairamdas Daulatram was born in Karachi.
21-Jul-1906
Welcome. Banerjee, first president of Indian National Congress, passed away.
21-Jul-1907
Former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Mohammad Baksh was born.
21-Jul-1911
Eminent Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist Uma Shankar Methylal Joshi was born in Bomana, Gujarat.
21-Jul-1930
Birth of famous lyricist Anand Baksh.
21-Jul-1934
Chandrakant Gulab Rao Bored, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959–67), born in Pune.
21-Jul-1935
Establishment of 'Mumbai Marathi Sanity Sangh'.
21-Jul-1936
Vasantrao Vishnu Rimaye, senior journalist and president of 'Ratnagiri Zella Paris had', is born.
21-Jul-1947
The Constituent Assembly of India adopted the tricolour as its national flag. The flag has three equal horizontal stripes of saffron (sacrifice), white (truth) and green (prosperity) and a blue wheel with 24 spokes in white (the wheel of religion at the top of Ashoka's pillar at Sainath). The proportion of width to length is a few.
21-Jul-1962
69 people died in a collision between a passenger train and a goods train near Doorman.
21-Jul-1963
Kashi Vidyapith is recognized as a university.
21-Jul-1975
Hindi Post Guard was established by Govt.
21-Jul-1977
KS Hegde was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
21-Jul-1977
Neelam Sanjeev Reddy has been elected President of India.
21-Jul-1977
Renowned zoologist Bhudia Chandra Bose passed away.
21-Jul-1984
Terrorists have broken the Bhakra Canal in Punjab.
21-Jul-1988
Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) is launched. It is an operational multipurpose communication and meteorological satellite. It served only for a year and a half. It was launched by the European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
21-Jul-1993
Jayalalithaa's hunger strike is over, the centre will form a committee; Karnataka rejected the proposal.
21-Jul-1994
The Supreme Court has declared that SC/ST will lose their status in case of migration to other states.
21-Jul-1995
Renowned film music director Sajjad Hossain passed away.
21-Jul-1999
Haryana Chief Minister Bandshell resigned before the vote of confidence; And the rebels formed a separate group.
21-Jul-1999
The Janata Dal split under the leadership of Deva Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group will support the NDA.
21-Jul-2000
Prime Minister A. b. Vajpayee announced a special fund for population projects, of which the Planning Commission would provide an initial amount of Rest. 100 crores. He said this in the first meeting of the National Population Commission.