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1948, 21st June: C. Rajagopalachari became the Governor-General of India. He was the last Governor-General of the country.
1975, 21st June: The victory of the first Cricket World Cup was achieved by the West Indies team.
1991, 21st June: PV Narasimha Rao became the ninth Prime Minister of India.
2006, 21st June: Newly discovered Pluto satellites are renamed Nix and Hydra.
2009, 21st June: 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, 21st June: The first International Day of Yoga was celebrated.
2020, 21st June: Undertaker retired as a wrestler from WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on 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.
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on 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.
What happened in India on 21 June
21-June-1576
Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.
21-June-1814
Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died.
21-June-1862
Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University.
21-June-1906
Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away.
21-June-1930
Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
21-June-1940
Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), passed away.
21-June-1941
Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.
21-June-1948
C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (21/06/1948-25/01/1950). After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished.
21-June-1988
Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in Amritsar.
21-June-1991
P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister of India. He reimained in this office till May 16, 1996. He formed a 54-member ministry in the 10th Parliament.
21-June-1994
The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group.
21-June-1997
Sethi claims sixth National billiards crown in Bangalore.
21-June-1998
India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.
21-June-1999
Leander Paes was seeded number one in double’s ranking. This was his highest double ranking.