Global Days & Remarks on 21st of October
21st Oct: Count Your Buttons Day (International).
21st Oct: National Reptile Awareness Day (United States of America).
Important Events on 21st of October
1296 A.D. = Alauddin Khalji conquered the throne of Delhi.
1577 A.D. = Sikh Gurur - Guru Ramdas established Amritsar city.
1797 A.D. = USS Constitution launched in Boston Harbor. It was the 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate.
1805 A.D. = Battle of Trafalgar.
1854 A.D. = Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses, is sent to the Crimean War.
1861 A.D. = Battle of Ball’s Bluff.
1879 A.D. = Great Scientist Thomas Edison successfully tested an Electric Incandescent Lamp with a carbonized filament at his laboratory in Menlo Park, keeping it lit for over 13 hours.
1915 A.D. = The first radio message was sent from Virginia to Paris across the Atlantic Ocean .
1934 A.D. = Establishment of "Congress Socialist Party" by Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends. Acharya Narendra Dev became its first President and Jayprakash Narayan became its Gen. Secretary.
1943 A.D. = Establishment of 'Azad Hind Government' in Singapore with Netaji Subhashchandra Bose as its elected national leader.
1947 A.D. = After the independence and partition of India, the office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) which was earlier at Lahore, bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad, UP, India.
1948 A.D. = United Nations rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.
1950 A.D. = Chinese Communist forces invaded in Tibet and occupied region.
1954 A.D. = The then Indian Government sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union with France Government.
1971 A.D. = NOAA's ITOS-B Weather satellite launched.
1990 A.D. = Indian National Broadcasting Channel - 'Doordarshan' starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 PM in Hindi language and 3 PM in English language for the duration of 7.5 minutes on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.
1997 A.D. = Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes Global with its newly launched website.
1999 A.D. = B. R. Chopra (Filmmaker) got Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
2019 A.D. = Major Newspaper houses of Australia blacked out their front pages in protest against "Press Restrictions" on printing Whistleblower stories.
2019 A.D. = The oldest natural pearl discovered off the Abu Dhabi coast was estimated to be 8,000 years old.
Important Birthdays on 21st of October
1833 A.D. = Alfred Nobel (Chemist, Engineer and Innovator).
1884 A.D. = Don Stephen Senanayake (1st Prime Minister of Ceylon).
1949 A.D. = Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel).
1950 A.D. = Ronald Erwin McNair (First African American Astronauts).
1956 A D. = Carrie Fisher (American Actress).
Important Death Anniversaries on 21st of October
2023 A.D. = Elizabeth Rawls (LPGA Golfer).
