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Historical Event on 10/21/1999

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1932Indian Muslims break with Great Britain.
9/25/1990S. S. Chauhan, one of the students who had suffered severe burns while trying to immolate himself in protest against implementation of Mandal Commission Report, died.
4/1/1989UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia.
9/25/1927Jagmohan Amirchand was born in Hafizabad (now in Pakistan).
12/21/2000Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow.
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
8/13/1928Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
11/16/1913Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born.
8/12/1997Bar Council of India debars full-time law teachers from practising as lawyers.
9/10/1943Satyendra Chandra Bardhan, Vakkom Abdul Khader, Fouja Singh, Boniface Pereira and Anandan were hanged on charges of conspiracy to ""wage war against the King"" under the Ememy Agents Ordinance (which was given retrospective effect) at Madras Jail. They sang Vande Mataram and shouted ""Bharat Mata Ki Jai"" when they were being hanged.