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21 June

🇮🇳 In India

1576 Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.

1814 Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died.

1862 Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University.

1948 Lord Mountbatten resigned as Viceroy of India.

2015 Indian PM Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in a yoga session in the center of New Delhi to showcase the country's signature cultural export. Millions of yoga enthusiasts across the world bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures to mark the first International Yoga Day.

🌎 Elsewhere

1527 Italian statesman, diplomat, and author of “The Prince,” Niccolo Machiavelli died.

1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright, novelist and screenwriter, was born. One of the key figures in the philosophy of Existentialism, he was also a political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.

1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations.

1937 The Wimbledon Tennis Championships was televised for the first time.

1953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996, was born. She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority country.

⭐ Significance

International Day of Yoga has been celebrated annually on 21 June since 2015, following its inception in the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual practice which originated in India.

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