Historical Events on October 21.

1. Indian Police Commemoration Day

2. 1296, 21st October: Alauddin Khilji captured the throne of Delhi.

3. 1805, 21st October: The Battle of Trafalgar took place on the coast of Spain.

4. 1854, 21st October: Florence Nightingale and 38 other nurses were sent to the Crimean War for medical treatment.

5. 1879, 21st October: Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.

6. 1888, 21st October: The Swiss Social Democratic Party was established.

7. 1934, 21st October: Jayaprakash Narayan formed the Congress Socialist Party.

8. 1943, 21st October: Establishment of the Azad Hind Sena in Singapore.

9. 1943, 21st October: Subhash Chandra Bose formally declared the Government of Independent India.

10. 1945, 21st October: French women voted for the first time during the 1945 French Legislative Elections. 

11. 1951, 21st October: Establishment of the Indian political party Bharatiya Jan Sangh.

12. 1983, 21st October: Light spaced at a distance of 1/299792458 seconds, defined as 1 meter.

13. 1987, 21st October: An attack on a hospital in Jaffna by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) killed 70 Tamils.

14. 1989, 21st October: Sukhdev Singh and Harvinder Singh, assassins of General Arun Kumar Vaidya, were sentenced to death.

15. 1999, 21st October: Dadasaheb Phalke Award announced to filmmaker BR Chopra.

16. 2002, 21st October: Mumbai Police filed a charge sheet against Salman Khan in Bandra Magistrate’s Court.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 21.

1. 1833: Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, and engineer invented dynamite, and founded the Nobel Prize.

2. 1887: Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer, and politician.

3. 1931: Shammi Kapoor, Indian-Hindi film actor, and producer.

4. 1937: Farooq Abdullah, an Indian politician and chairman of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference.

5. 1949: Benjamin Netanyahu, the ninth Prime Minister of Israel.

6. 1972: HR Gaikwad, an Indian entrepreneur, and the Chairman and Managing Director of BVG India Limited.

7. 1980: Kim Kardashian, an American media personality, socialite, model, businesswoman, and actress.

8. 1992: Srinidhi Shetty, an Indian model, actress and beauty pageant titleholder.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 21.

1. 1422: King Charles VI of France.

2. 1835: Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian-Tamil poet and composer.

3. 1858: Baburao Shedmake, an Indian pro-independence rebel and a Gond chieftain from Central India.

4. 1981: Dattatraya Ramchandra Bendre, Indian-Kannada poet.

5. 1990: Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher, and writer.

6. 1995: Linda Goodman, American astrologer, and author.

7. 2010: A. Ayyappan, Indian poet and translator.

8. 2012: Yash Chopra, Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

21-October-1296

Alauddin Khalji conquered the throne of Delhi. In July declared himself as the Sultan.

21-October-1577

Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city.

21-October-1762

Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1807-11), was born.

21-October-1789

Ramshastri Prabhune, justice of Peshwa kingdom, died.

21-October-1858

Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, great social reformer, was born.

21-October-1887

Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, great politician, revolutionist leader and chief minister, was born at Khanwa.

21-October-1906

Gandhiji went to England till Nov 30 on deputation to present Indians' case to Colonial Secretary.

21-October-1916

Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.

21-October-1934

Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.

21-October-1943

Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.

21-October-1947

The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad.

21-October-1950

China invades Tibet.

21-October-1954

Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.

21-October-1959

Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.

21-October-1981

Kerala under central rule.

21-October-1989

Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.

21-October-1990

Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.

21-October-1994

Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.

21-October-1995

L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi.

21-October-1995

Suresh Mehta, Finance Minister in the outgoing Keshubhai Patel ministry, sworn in as the second BJP CM of Gujarat in Gandhinagar, ending the month-long political turmoil.

21-October-1996

Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India.

21-October-1997

Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.

21-October-1997

RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates.

21-October-1998

Ajit alias Hamid Ali Khan (76), Hindi film actor, dies in Hyderabad.

21-October-1999

B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

21-October-1999

Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha.

21-October-2000

Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.