Year 1746
French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.
SEPTEMBER 21
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21 September: 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 September.
Year 1792
Louis XVIII overthrew the Empire and the French Republic was born.
Year 1857
Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops.
Year 1942
World War II: Nazis killed 2,800 Jews in Ukraine.
Year 1945
British promise India independence.
Year 1948
Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society.
Year 1954
Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
Year 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.
Year 1964
Malta became independent from the United Kingdom.
Year 1965
Gambia, Maldives, and Singapore joined the United Nations.
Year 1966
Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia.
Year 1968
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was formed.
Year 1971
Bahrain, Bhutan, and Qatar joined the United Nations.
Year 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.
Year 1990
Supreme Court refuses to stay implementation of Mandal Commission Report.
Year 1991
Armenia became independent from the Soviet Union.
Year 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.
Born 1862
Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telegu poet, playwright, story writer, critic and social reformer, was born.
Born 1874
Gustav Holst, British composer, and teacher whose best-known work, The Planets, is also one of the most popular orchestral suits with the audience.
Born 1882
Geevarghese Ivanios, Indian metropolitan (d. 1953)
Born 1888
H. G. Wells, an English author who pioneered science fiction when he wrote The Time Machine, his first work.
Born 1895
Annapurnanand, great writer, was born.
Born 1898
Tushar Kanti Ghosh, famous journalist, was born.
Born 1902
Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books.
Born 1912
Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born.
Born 1926
Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer, and actress. She also worked in Indian film in British India.
Born 1931
Larry Hugman, American actor and director best known for his role as mean oil tycoon JR Ewing in the TV serial Dallas.
Born 1934
Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, and singer whose gloomy songs, which include “Suzanne” and “That’s no way to say Goodbye”, and growling delivery won him a cult following in the 1960s and 70s.
Born 1938
Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan.
Born 1939
Agnivesh, Indian philosopher, academic, and politician
Born 1947
Stephen Edwin King, an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels.
Born 1950
Bill Murray, an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and writer.
Born 1954
Shinzo Abe, a Japanese politician who is the prime minister of Japan since 2012.
Born 1955
Gulshan Grover, an Indian actor who has appeared in over 400 films.
Born 1979
Chris Gayle, a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies.
Born 1980
Kareena Kapoor, an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films.
Died 1743
Jai Singh II, Indian king (b. 1688)
Died 1743
Sawai Jaisingh, King of Jaipur Sansthan.
Died 1860
Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher.
Died 1887
Wajid Ali Shah, the eleventh and last King of Awadh.
Died 1933
Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away.
Died 1936
Frank Hornby, an English inventor, businessman, and politician.
Died 1950
Edward Arthur Milne, a British astrophysicist, and mathematician.
Died 1959
Abraham Flexner, American educator.
Died 1976
Benjamin Graham, a British-born American economist, professor, and investor. He is widely known as the “father of value investing”,
Died 1983
Bada Rajan, Indian mobster (b. unknown)
Died 1992
Tarachand Barjatya, an Indian film producer, founded Rajshri Productions (b. 1914)
Died 1994
Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away.
Died 1998
Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter.
Died 2000
Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1960–1961.
Died 2012
Gopalan Kasturi, Journalist, and editor of The Hindu newspaper.