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Historical Event on 6/21/1941

Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/16/1912Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.
7/12/1980Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha.
2/3/1929The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"".
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.
2/4/1991An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
10/10/1899Shripad Amrit Dange, socialist and Trade Union Leader, was born.
2/18/1996Kenya's first full One Day International Cricket match at Cricket World Cup vs India. Tendulkar scored 127* and India won over Kenya.