| 1996 | Birth of great poet and writer Suryakant Tripathi Nirala in 1896. |
| 1959 | Press Club of India established in 1959 in New Delhi. |
| 1999 | Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration in 1999. |
| 2008 | On February 21, 2008, Anil Ambani's Anupam Global Soft was acquired by Reliance Communication, an Indian industrialist Anil Ambani. |
| 2008 | Private Airlines Jet Airways entered into a strategic alliance with Air Canada on 21 February 2008. |
| 2013 | A series of bomb blasts took place in Hyderabad on February 21, 2013, in which around 17 people died and 119 were badly injured. |