Today Importance - 21st September

Today Importance - 21st September

21 September 1746

French expeditionary force captures Labordonnais and Dupleix, Madras.

21 September 1857

Bahadur Shah Jaffar-II surrendered against British troops.

21 September 1862

Renowned Telugu poet, dramatist, storyteller, critic and social reformer Venkata Apareon Gujrat was born.

21-Sep-1895

The great writer Annapurnananda was born.

21-Sep-1898

Birth of famous journalist Tushar Kantit Ghosh.

21-Sep-1912

Birth of great politician Feroze Gandhi.

21 September 1933

Annie Besant, the great social activist and founder of the Home Rule movement, has died.

21 September 1938

In 1990-91 for a test cricket test umpire Proof Raghuveer Singh Rathore was born in Rajasthan.

After 21 September 1945

The British promised independence to India.

21 September 1948

The Press Trust of India (PTI) was announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and the Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society.

21 September 1954

The last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.

21 September 1962

Major General I.J. Richey completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to the UNSF, thus completing the cessation of hostilities order without incident.

21-Sep-1966

Mihir Sen swam across the Persian Gulf.

21 September 1984

The National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources and the National Institute of Animal Genetics were established. These institutes were initially located at the Southern Regional Station campus of the National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore. Then in July 1985 he was transferred to Colonel.

21 September 1990

The Supreme Court refused to grant a stay on the implementation of the Mandal Commission report.

21 September 1992

Women were inducted into the army as officers from the Officers Training School (OTS) and the arduous task of training women cadets in the WSES (O) course at OTS began.

21 September 1992

Filmmaker Tara Chand Baraita passed away.

21 September 1994

An episode of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat.

21 September 1994

Freedom fighter and veteran industrialist Ramakrishna Bajaj passed away.

21 September 1995

Rumours spread in New Delhi that an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh was drinking milk.

21 September 1996

Aping (Arunachal Congress Legislature Party Leader) has again been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh.

21 September 1996

Rao left the post of Congress president.

21 September 1997

Mahesh Bharathi's brilliant win helped India to a 3-2 win over Chile in their Davis Cup World Group play-off match in Delhi.

21 September 1997

I.K. Goral and Nawaz Sharif discussed recent tensions along the Line of Control and cross-border firing in New York. Both agreed that such a source of tension should not be allowed.

21 September 1999

At the AGM of the Board of Control for Cricket in India at Jaipur Shri A.C. Mattia was elected president and Kapil Dev was elected senior coach.

21 September 2000

J.W. Singh, a suspended judge of the Mumbai High Court who faced charges of extortion in collusion with the underworld, was dismissed from judicial service.