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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 05/19/1796 |
Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds. |
| 05/19/1904 |
Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 05/19/1908 |
Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 05/19/1911 |
K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 05/19/1913 |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born. |
| 05/19/1951 |
Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 05/19/1953 |
State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development. |
| 05/19/1954 |
The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board. |
| 05/19/1956 |
The Indian govt. bans six U.S. and two British films for presenting a 'disparaging' impression of life in Africa, including 'African Queen' and 'Mogambo' at New Delhi. |
| 05/19/1969 |
Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
| 05/19/1971 |
Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam. |
| 05/19/1975 |
Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune. |
| 05/19/1979 |
Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away. |
| 05/19/1980 |
Dr. Ramashankar Shukla 'Rasal', famous writer, passed away. |
| 05/19/1980 |
T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
| 05/19/1982 |
Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. |
| 05/19/1990 |
S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD. |
| 05/19/1991 |
About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha. |
| 05/19/1992 |
Arjuna award for Tennis star Leander Paes and Hockey champion Jagbir Singh. |
| 05/19/1993 |
Government decides to merge Vayudut with Indian Airlines. |
| 05/19/1993 |
S. W. Sohoni, 4 Tests for India, 83 runs @ 16.6, 2 wkts @ 101, passed away. |
| 05/19/2000 |
A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 01/01/1931 | Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki. |
| 09/22/1869 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu. |
| 05/14/1953 | Y. N. Sukthankar was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1957. |
| 12/14/1946 | Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader, was born in New Delhi. |
| 07/15/2000 | The Maharashtra Government gives the green signal to police to proceed against Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray for his alleged role in the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots. |
| 08/02/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship. |
| 04/15/1890 | Gaganvihari Lalubhai Mehta, famous Indian economist, politician and journalist, was born. |
| 01/04/1931 | Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, great orator, eminent journalist, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, died at London during the first Round Table Conference. He was closely associated to Mahatma Gandhi and took active part in Civil Disobedience Movement. |
| 12/04/2000 | India deports TULF functionary-turned LTTE supporter M.K. Eelavendhan, a Chennai resident for over a decade. |
| 05/09/1995 | Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt. |
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