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Historical Event on 10/21/1999

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/3/1991Rupee devalued again from 10.58 to 10.96\% .
3/27/1845Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany.
12/31/1998Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
8/7/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
4/14/1963Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling.
3/17/1905Narsinghcharya Purohit Tirunarayan Iyyangar, famous Kannad poet, music director and critic, was born.
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.