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Historical Event on 12/19/1919
Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 1/22/1989 | Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds. |
| 4/14/1919 | Gandhiji confesses at Nadiad his ""Himalayan Miscalculation"" regarding satyagraha martial law declared in Punjab. |
| 8/17/1916 | Amritlal Naagar was born. |
| 12/17/1991 | Narasimhan committee on Monetary Reforms recommends that there should not be any further nationalisation of banks. Loan-melas assailed. |
| 7/29/1984 | Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots. |
| 1/27/1972 | V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away. |
| 4/24/1974 | Ramdhari Singh alias 'Dinkar', veteran famous Hindi writer and poet, passed away. |
| 6/7/1997 | At least 37 persons were feared killed in a fire in ''yagyashala'' at Thanjavur Big Temple. |
| 8/23/1942 | Gorabai Katiya, freedom fighter, was shot by police while participating in a procession for freedom movement in Narsihapur. |
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