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

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 21st 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 occurred 21st January

Sushant Singh Rajput  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   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. She then returned to her hometown and joined a junior college.
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  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 January

Eric Arthur Blair  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. Considered perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture
Geeta Bali  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 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   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   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 Events:

1820 Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born.
1882 Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born.
1908 Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed.
1910 Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born.

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