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Historical Event on 1/19/1919
Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/21/1963 | East German party Congress ends; Ulbricht, with Soviet support, condemns Chinese invasion of India at Berlin. |
5/7/1908 | Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad. |
10/26/1946 | 27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta. |
12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
10/22/1912 | Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits. |
12/17/1971 | Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war. |
7/19/1998 | Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. |
9/28/1827 | A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery. |
2/15/1992 | Sain Swami Gangeshwaranandji, chief of `Udasin Sampraday', passed away. |
11/2/1885 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died. |
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