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What Happened Today In History?
Find out what happened on 21st December in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 21st December
Govinda (born Govind Arun Ahuja, 21 December 1963) also recognized as Chi Chi is an Indian actor and politician. Govinda has received five Filmfare Award nominations and four Zee Cine Award, winning two Filmfare Award. Making his debut in Ilzaam in 1986, he has appeared in over 120 Hindi films of the Bollywood industry.
Tamannaah Bhatia (born 21 December 1989) is an Indian film actress and model, who performs under the mononym Tamannaah and predominantly appears in Telugu and Tamil cinema. In 2005, she made her acting debut in the Hindi film, Chand Sa Roshan Chehra, before working in the major South Indian film industries.
Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy (Telugu: యెడుగూరి సందింటి జగన్మోహన రెడ్డి)(born December 21, 1972), also called Jagan by his admirers, is an Indian politician and is a member of the Parliament of India from Kadapa constituency.. He is the son of the former Andhra Pradesh Chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
Vaibhavi Merchant (born 21 December 1975) is a well-known Bollywood dance choreographer, the granddaughter of pioneering choreographer Shri B. Hiralal, her maternal grandfather. She is the older sister of Shruti Merchant. She began her career by assisting Chinni Prakash. She had her acting debut in the Malayalam film Snehapoorvam Anna, but returned to her roots as a dancer and choreographer.
Krishnamachari Srikkanth (Tamil: க்ரிஷ்ணமச்சரி ஸ்ரீக்காந்த்) pronunciation (help·info) (born 21 December 1959) is a former captain of the Indian cricket team and the current chairman of the selection committee. Born in a Brahmin family, he is an engineer by qualification and graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India.
Swāmī Brahmānanda Saraswatī (20 December 1868 – 20 May 1953) was the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, a revered Hindu spiritual title in India, from 1941 to 1953. Rājarām Miśra was born into a Brahmin family in the village of Gana, near Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was called Rajaram in his younger days and was also known as Maha Yogiraj.
Death anniversaries on 21st December :
Teji Bachchan (Punjabi: ਤੇਜੀ ਬਚੱਨ (Gurmukhi), تیجی بچن (Shahmukhi); Hindi: तेजी बच्चन) (12 August 1914 – 21 December 2007) was social activist who became a confidant of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; as well as being the wife of Hindi literary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan.
Autar Singh Paintal M.D., Ph.D. (September 24, 1925 in Mogok, Burma – December 21, 2004 in Delhi, India) was a medical scientist who has made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. He is a merit student and did his postgraduation in Physiology from King George Medical College, Lucknow.
Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer (known as G. V. Iyer) (1917 – December 21, 2003) was a well known Indian film director and actor. He was nicknamed “Kannada Bheeshma”, and was the only person who made movies in Sanskrit, Adi Shankaracharya (1983) and which won four National Film Award, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Audiography.
Padmanabhan Krishnagopalan Iyengar (29 June 1931 – 21 December 2011) was an eminent Indian nuclear physicist. He played a central role in India’s cold fission tests. He was former head of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India.
Chief Justice Alvin “Bobby” Robert Cornelius (Urdu: الوین رابرٹ كورنيليس; May 8, 1903 — December 21, 1991), HPk, was the Pakistani jurist and judge, serving as the 4th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1960 until 1968. Cornelius was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in British Indian Empire, to a Urdu-speaking Christian family, who raised in secular mode.
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