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21 April in Indian and World History

21 April is the birth anniversary of Max Weber, James Braid Taylor, Maharaja Karni Singh, Charlotte Brontë, Friedrich Fröbel, R.A. Kartini, Sir Norman Parkinson and Queen Elizabeth II and the death anniversary of Mohammad Iqbal, Shakuntala Devi, Raúl Soldi, and Janaki Ballabh Patnaik. 21 April is the founding day of Bangkok. Brian Lara retired from one-day cricket on this day. In 1996, Sanjay Thapar of the Indian Air Force landed on the North Pole via parachute.