21st Jan – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Find out what happened on the 21st of January 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 occur 21st of January

 
Sushant Singh Rajput (born on January 21, 1986 in Delhi, India) is an Indian television actor best known for playing the role of Preet in Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil and Manav in Pavitra Rishta and also known for his dancing skills post Zara Nachke Dikha and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. Sushant, a Delhi-ite, was born to the Rajput family.
Santhanam is a Tamil film actor, who plays comedy roles in Tamil films. His fame started off in the Lollu Sabha. He made his feature film debut in Manmadhan in 2004 and later appeared in several successful films. He is best known for his roles in Siruthai (2011) and director M. Rajesh’s comic trilogy.
Kim Michelle Sharma (born 21 January 1980) is a Bollywood actress and model. Kim was born in Ahmednagar to an Indian father and a Japanese mother. She has 3 sisters. Kim did her schooling at St. Joseph’s Convent in Panchgani.
Sundar C. is a Tamil film director and actor. He has directed 25 films in Kollywood and debuted his acting career in 2006 with the film Thalai Nagaram. Initially he worked as a assistant director to Manivannan and he got introduced as a director from the movie Murai Maman. Which is family drama.
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994) was a Malayalam fiction writer from the state of Kerala in India. He was a humanist, freedom fighter, novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his pathbreaking, disarmingly down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well as the common man.
 

Death Anniversaries on 21st of January

 
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by clarity, intelligence and wit, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and belief in democratic socialism.
Geeta Bali (1930 – 21 January 1965) was a popular film actress from Bollywood. Bali was born in a Mohyal Sikh family in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur. Her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films.
Eedara Veera Venkata Satyanarayana (10 June 1956 – 21 January 2011), better known as E. V. V. Satyanarayana, was a critically acclaimed Telugu Indian film director, writer and producer. He has directed a total of 51 films in Telugu and Hindi language and introduced many actors to Telugu cinema.
Salma Mumtaz (1926 – January 21, 2012) was a Pakistani film actress, dancer, director and producer. Mumtaz made her film debut as an actress in the 1960 Urdu language film, Neelofar. A dancer in addition to an actor, Mumtaz danced in more than three hundred predominantly Punjabi language films during her career.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fairfax Moresby GCB (1786 – 21 January 1877), born in Calcutta, India, to English parents was a British naval officer. Moresby was the eldest son of Fairfax Moresby, Lieut. Colonel of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia and Colonel Commandant of the Lichfield Volunteer Yeomanry.
 

Notable Event 

 
1961 Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II, and her husband Duke of Edinburgh visited New Delhi.
1969 First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.
1993 Chander Pal at Bangalore sets record for High Jump in 2.17.
1994 India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
1996 Lakshmi Parvati elected president of Telugu Desam NTR faction.
 

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