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.
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