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Historical Event on 8/19/1916
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/15/1997 | K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament. |
| 4/28/1848 | Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa. |
| 10/2/1910 | D. Arkasomayaji, educationist, was born at Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 6/29/1997 | Anand wins Frankfurt chess classic '97 title in Germany. |
| 6/15/1953 | Internal Air Route Corporation of India was established. |
| 6/20/1992 | CPM decides to back Dr. Sharma. |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 1/1/1664 | Shivaji marched towards Surat. |
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