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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 9/21/1746 |
French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras. |
| 9/21/1857 |
Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops. |
| 9/21/1862 |
Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telegu poet, playwright, story writer, critic and social reformer, was born. |
| 9/21/1895 |
Annapurnanand, great writer, was born. |
| 9/21/1898 |
Tushar Kanti Ghosh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 9/21/1912 |
Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born. |
| 9/21/1933 |
Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away. |
| 9/21/1938 |
Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan. |
| 9/21/1945 |
British promise India independence. |
| 9/21/1948 |
Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society. |
| 9/21/1954 |
Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet. |
| 9/21/1962 |
Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident. |
| 9/21/1966 |
Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia. |
| 9/21/1984 |
National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources and National Institute of Animal Genetics were set up. These institutes were initially located in the campus of southern regional station of National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore. They were then shifted to Karnal in July 1985. |
| 9/21/1990 |
Supreme Court refuses to stay implementation of Mandal Commission Report. |
| 9/21/1992 |
The Officers Training School (OTS) women were inducted into the Army as Officers, and the onerous task of training the Lady Cadets of WSES (O) courses commenced at the OTS. |
| 9/21/1992 |
Tarachand Barjatya, film producer, passed away. |
| 9/21/1994 |
Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 9/21/1994 |
Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away. |
| 9/21/1995 |
Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi. |
| 9/21/1996 |
Apang (Legislative Party leader of Arunachal Congress) sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh chief minister again. |
| 9/21/1996 |
Rao resigns Congress Party President post. |
| 9/21/1997 |
Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi. |
| 9/21/1997 |
I. K. Gujral and Nawaz Sharif discussed in New York the recent flare-up on Line of Control and firing across the border.The two agreed that such sources of tension should not be allowed. |
| 9/21/1999 |
Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur. |
| 9/21/2000 |
J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/23/1999 | Vinod Chandra Pandey takes over as the Governor of Bihar. |
| 4/24/1888 | Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo. |
| 4/16/1918 | Lalita Pawar, famous actress of Indian film industry, was born. |
| 7/4/1729 | Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
| 12/16/1770 | Ludwig Van Beethoven, greatest musician, poet and innovator, was born. |
| 8/14/1993 | 15 bus passengers massacred in J&K. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 3/15/1950 | Planning Commission Day. |
| 5/4/1854 | The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established. |
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