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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
9/22/1992Harshad Mehta released after 110 days in jail.
9/1/1962Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur.
7/29/1988Syed Modi, 28-year national badminton champion, was shot dead at K. D. Singh Stadium in Lucknow.
11/12/1781Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
9/18/1932A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence.
8/5/1992Achyutrao Patwardhan, leader of 'Quit India Movement', died at Varanasi at the age of 86.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
11/13/1962Yezdani Gulam, great researcher, archeologist and art critic, died