Historical Events - June 21
1948: C. Rajagopalachari became the Governor-General of India. He was the last Governor-General of the country.
1975: The victory of the first Cricket World Cup was achieved by the West Indies team.
1991: PV Narasimha Rao became the ninth Prime Minister of India.
2006: Newly discovered Pluto satellites are renamed Nix and Hydra.
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.
2015: The first International Day of Yoga was celebrated.
2020: Undertaker retired as a wrestler from WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).
Famous Birthdays – June 21
1781: Siméon Denis Poisson, a French mathematician.
1905: Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher.
1912: Vishnu Prabhakar, an Indian Hindi writer.
1940: Bikash Bhattacharjee, an Indian painter.
1953: Benazir Bhutto, a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1958: Reema Lagoo, an Indian theatre and screen actress.
Death Anniversaries - June 21
1893: Leland Stanford was an American industrialist and politician.
1940: Keshav Hedgewar, the founding Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
1970: Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia.
2003: Leon Uris, an American author.
2020: Jeet Singh Negi, a music composer, singer, lyricist, writer, and director.
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