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Historical Event on 9/21/2000

J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
5/29/1992Agni-India's IRB missile successfully test-fired from Orissa coast for the first time since May 22, 1989.
9/3/1993Pawar resigns from Lok Sabha to take up the newly won Maharashtra Legislative Council seat.
10/9/1877Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa.
2/27/1912Lawrence Durrell, Britsh writer (Alexandria Quartet, Private Country), was born in Darjeeling, India. .
7/2/2000At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar.
4/26/1929British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India.
1/18/1983Indi Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
3/24/1968The second Indian-made rocket 'Menaka' successfully launched at the Thumba station.