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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 10/19/1689 |
Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals. |
| 10/19/1774 |
Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India. |
| 10/19/1875 |
The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic. |
| 10/19/1888 |
Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
| 10/19/1905 |
Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London. |
| 10/19/1907 |
Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born. |
| 10/19/1910 |
Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 10/19/1920 |
Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born. |
| 10/19/1921 |
Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born. |
| 10/19/1925 |
B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born. |
| 10/19/1929 |
Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born. |
| 10/19/1954 |
Nehru and Mao meet in Peking. |
| 10/19/1967 |
Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light. |
| 10/19/1970 |
First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 10/19/1974 |
T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 10/19/1979 |
T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 10/19/1983 |
Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler. |
| 10/19/1983 |
Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends. |
| 10/19/1990 |
The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution. |
| 10/19/1997 |
BSP withdraws support to Kalyan Singh government in UP because of its 'anti-Dalit' policies. |
| 10/19/1999 |
Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I). |
| 10/19/2000 |
The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/2000 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 3/25/1999 | Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore. |
| 4/4/1942 | Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War. |
| 11/3/1933 | Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal). |
| 2/17/1986 | Jiddu Krishnamurti, famous Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), passed away at the age of 90 yrs at Ojai, California, USA. |
| 3/21/1979 | The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988). |
| 10/20/1752 | The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the 'Raja' with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the 'Mumar Bahadur' with the title of Rajendra. |
| 10/20/1752 | General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India. |
| 7/5/1658 | Aurangzeb arrested Murad. |
| 9/4/1998 | Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing. |
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