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Historical Event on 1/19/1919

Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born.

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2/14/1901Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born.
10/2/1999Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
1/14/1882Maharshi Raghunath Dhondo Karve, father of Family Planning and Sex Education, was born.
10/2/1910Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born.
3/8/1997G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress.
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
6/21/1930Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
11/19/2000The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.