July21

Terrorists breach Bhakra canal in Punjab.

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission.

Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi.

Gulam Mohamad Bakshi, former Prime Minister Jammu and Kashmir, was born.

Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.

Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune.

Vasantrao Vishnu Limye, senior journalist and President of 'Ratnagiri District Parishad', was born.

Establishment 'Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.

Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.

Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.

Hindi Post Guards was established by Government.

The Supreme Court declares that SC/ST will lose status on migration to other states.

Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned.

Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.

Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.

Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born.

Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.

W.C. Bonerjee, first President of Indian National Congress, passed away.

Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away.

Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away.

K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker.

Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.

Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.

Bansi Lal, Haryana Chief Minister, quits before seeking a trust vote; and rebels form a separate party.

The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA.