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Historical Event on 2/19/1855
U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1928 | Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55), was born at Pune. |
| 8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
| 11/16/1962 | Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war. |
| 9/4/1862 | Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 3/26/1993 | Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao. |
| 7/22/1991 | Pandit Basavraj Rajguru, great singer, passed away. |
| 2/23/1962 | Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started. |
| 11/16/1991 | Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died |
| 11/25/1975 | Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. |
| 10/5/1989 | Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989). |
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