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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 6/19/1747 |
Nadirshaha passed away. |
| 6/19/1871 |
Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 6/19/1877 |
Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 6/19/1901 |
Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences. |
| 6/19/1931 |
Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 6/19/1947 |
Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 6/19/1949 |
People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union. |
| 6/19/1966 |
Shiv Sena was established. |
| 6/19/1979 |
Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party. |
| 6/19/1981 |
APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
| 6/19/1990 |
NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan. |
| 6/19/1990 |
13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men. |
| 6/19/1991 |
Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM. |
| 6/19/1995 |
In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government's majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House. |
| 6/19/1995 |
India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary's visit. |
| 6/19/1996 |
Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI. |
| 6/19/1997 |
Indian flag cargo ship, M. V. Arcadia Pride, sinks in inclement weather, seven nautical miles off Colaba, Mumbai, leaving four sailors dead and 20 missing. In the rescue and search operation by the Indian Navy, nine persons were rescued. |
| 6/19/1997 |
Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir. |
| 6/19/1999 |
The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
| 6/19/2000 |
Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 6/19/2000 |
Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/2000 | Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away. |
| 9/15/1997 | Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control. |
| 10/24/1994 | Justice Ahmad Mushabber Ahmadi sworn in as Chief Justice of India. |
| 4/8/1937 | R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
| 3/8/1999 | The President formally revokes the proclamation imposing Central rule in Bihar after this was decided by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day. |
| 3/4/1995 | Kakrapar nuclear power station's second unit located near Surat synchronised to the western grid after mandatory tests. |
| 11/11/1992 | S.Bangarappa resigns as the CM of Karnataka. |
| 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. |
| 10/19/1910 | Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, was born on Baisakhi in a Khatri family in Talwandi Rae Bhoe in Pakistan, known as Nankana Sahib. Guru Nanak's birthday has been traditionally celebrated on Katik Poornamashi. Althought the correct birth date has been established as Vaisakh 1 (April 14), it will continue to be celebrated on Katik Poornamashi until such time as it is changed to Vaisakh 1. (Most Sikhs in the present day consider themselves members of a separate religion.). |
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