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Historical Event on 11/21/1963
First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/21/1963 | Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 2/13/1713 | Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers. |
| 7/1/1938 | Hariprasad Chaursia, famous flute player, was born. |
| 6/13/1909 | E. M. S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala. |
| 11/14/1996 | Competition Post Card', a new category of postcard, priced Rs. 2 introduced. |
| 11/14/1996 | Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language, was born. |
| 1/26/1876 | Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 7/23/1991 | Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 8/18/1969 | Humayun Kabir, great politician, died. |
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