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Historical Event on 8/21/1955
Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1976 | Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born. |
| 1/5/1995 | Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 3/21/1971 | Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown. |
| 8/30/1991 | Dr. P. J. Devras, friend of snakes, passed away. |
| 4/9/1695 | Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav. |
| 9/23/1743 | Sawai Jaising died. |
| 10/10/2000 | The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo. |
| 4/5/1993 | K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election. |
| 12/10/1996 | Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries. |
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