Year 1948
C. Rajagopalachari became the Governor-General of India. He was the last Governor-General of the country.
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21 June: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 21 June.
Year 1975
The victory of the first Cricket World Cup was achieved by the West Indies team.
Year 1991
PV Narasimha Rao became the ninth Prime Minister of India.
Year 2004
Space Ship One becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
Year 2005
Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
Year 2006
Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
Year 2006
Newly discovered Pluto satellites are renamed Nix and Hydra.
Year 2009
India’s badminton star player Saina Nehwal won the title of Super Series Badminton Tournament. She is the first Indian woman to do so.
Year 2009
Greenland assumes self-rule.
Year 2012
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
Year 2015
The first International Day of Yoga was celebrated.
Year 2020
Undertaker retired as a wrestler from WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).
Born 1781
Siméon Denis Poisson, a French mathematician.
Born 1905
Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher.
Born 1912
Vishnu Prabhakar, an Indian Hindi writer.
Born 1940
Bikash Bhattacharjee, an Indian painter.
Born 1941
Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian bishop
Born 1953
Benazir Bhutto, a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Born 1958
Reema Lagoo, an Indian theatre and screen actress.
Born 1994
Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player
Born 1996
Tyrone May, Australian rugby league player
Born 1997
Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter
Born 1997
Derrius Guice, American football player
Died 1893
Leland Stanford was an American industrialist and politician.
Died 1940
Keshav Hedgewar, the founding Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Died 1970
Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia.
Died 2003
Leon Uris, an American author.
Died 2012
Abid Hussain, Indian economist and diplomat, Indian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1926)
Died 2012
Sunil Janah, Indian photographer and journalist (b. 1918)
Died 2015
Remo Remotti, Italian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1924)
Died 2015
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German soldier and politician (b. 1932)
Died 2015
Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)
Died 2016
Pierre Lalonde, Canadian television host and singer (b. 1941)
Died 2018
Charles Krauthammer, American columnist and conservative political commentator (b.1950)
Died 2020
Jeet Singh Negi, a music composer, singer, lyricist, writer, and director.