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Historical Event on 6/19/1931
Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/11/1973 | India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds. |
| 10/28/1946 | Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar. |
| 11/23/1937 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl |
| 5/4/1998 | India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list. |
| 9/5/1997 | Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta. |
| 10/21/1997 | Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 6/4/1902 | Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born. |
| 1/1/1986 | Fourth Pay Commission implemented. |
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