Historical Events -  October 21

 1296 : Alauddin Khilji captured the throne of Delhi.

1805 : The Battle of Trafalgar took place on the coast of Spain.

1854 : Florence Nightingale and 38 other nurses were sent to the Crimean War for medical treatment.

1879 : Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.

1888 : The Swiss Social Democratic Party was established.

1934 : Jayaprakash Narayan formed the Congress Socialist Party.

1943 : Establishment of the Azad Hind Sena in Singapore.

1943 : Subhash Chandra Bose formally declared the Government of Independent India.

1945 : French women voted for the first time during the 1945 French Legislative Elections. 

1951 : Establishment of the Indian political party Bharatiya Jan Sangh.

1983 : Light spaced at a distance of 1/299792458 seconds, defined as 1 meter.

1987 : An attack on a hospital in Jaffna by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) killed 70 Tamils.

1989 : Sukhdev Singh and Harvinder Singh, assassins of General Arun Kumar Vaidya, were sentenced to death.

1999 : Dadasaheb Phalke Award announced to filmmaker BR Chopra.

2002 : Mumbai Police filed a charge sheet against Salman Khan in Bandra Magistrate’s Court.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 21  

1833: Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, and engineer invented dynamite, and founded the Nobel Prize.

1887: Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer, and politician.

1931: Shammi Kapoor, Indian-Hindi film actor, and producer.

1937: Farooq Abdullah, an Indian politician and chairman of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference.

1949: Benjamin Netanyahu, the ninth Prime Minister of Israel.

1972: HR Gaikwad, an Indian entrepreneur, and the Chairman and Managing Director of BVG India Limited.

1980: Kim Kardashian, an American media personality, socialite, model, businesswoman, and actress.

1992: Srinidhi Shetty, an Indian model, actress and beauty pageant titleholder.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 21

1422: King Charles VI of France.

1835: Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian-Tamil poet and composer.

1858: Baburao Shedmake, an Indian pro-independence rebel and a Gond chieftain from Central India.

1981: Dattatraya Ramchandra Bendre, Indian-Kannada poet.

1990: Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher, and writer.

1995: Linda Goodman, American astrologer, and author.

2010: A. Ayyappan, Indian poet and translator.

2012: Yash Chopra, Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer.