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Historical Event on 12/21/1990
Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1908 | Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born. |
| 3/20/1937 | England beat Scotland at Murrayfield for the first time for Soccer's Calcutta Cup, International Championship and Triple Crown, UK. |
| 11/25/1990 | Sri Lanka all out at 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17.5 overs. |
| 6/14/1996 | CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal. |
| 3/9/1650 | Saint Tukaram Maharaj, famous saint of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 10/29/1935 | Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born. |
| 11/20/1967 | First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. |
| 8/1/1846 | Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London. |
| 12/3/1998 | India and Portugal sign an agreement in New Delhi for setting up a joint committee to enhance cooperation in science and technology. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
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