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Historical Event on 10/21/1999
B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/27/1990 | Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election. |
| 6/1/1927 | Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 10/29/1990 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 2/13/1879 | Sarojini Naidu ""Nightingale of India"", was born at Hyderabad. She was the first Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress and took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931. |
| 2/13/1879 | Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 6/7/2000 | Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. |
| 1/11/1858 | Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
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