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Historical Event on 1/19/1948

India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
5/10/1936Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and muslim leader, passed away.
7/5/1993Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff.
11/1/1930S. R. Bose, cricket test umpire for one test in 1983-84, was born in Bihar.
7/1/1929Ramchandra Ganpatrao Shinde, educationist, was born at Burhanpur, (M.P.).
6/6/1997U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
5/25/1997In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan.
2/18/1899Jainarain Vyas, leader, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He played a leading role in creating united Rajasthan by integration of various states of Rajputana. He was the first Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1951 to 1954.
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)