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Historical Event on 2/19/1670
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the great Maratha, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
| 2/3/1928 | Simon Commission comes to India under Lord Irwin, after which serious rioting started on his arrival. |
| 3/23/1997 | 10 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation. |
| 11/20/1760 | Phattesingh Bhosle passed away. |
| 7/5/2000 | Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore. |
| 7/15/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns as PM. Jagjivan Ram elected Janata Parliamentary party leader. |
| 3/21/1934 | Buta Singh, former Home Minister of India, was born. |
| 8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
| 1/8/1984 | Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74. |
| 8/4/1993 | Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita, died at the age of 76 in San Diego. |
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