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Historical Event on 3/19/1998
E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 4/22/1998 | India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region. |
| 8/21/1879 | Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 7/29/1802 | Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army. |
| 11/17/1857 | Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow. |
| 6/13/1991 | Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists. |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 3/16/1946 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur Darbar, passed away. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 2/5/1992 | Ajit Singh elected 'real J.D.' President. |
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