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Historical Event on 4/19/1997
I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1995 | Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 6/17/1976 | Montreal Olympics opens. |
| 8/4/1845 | Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay. |
| 2/1/1942 | No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers. |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 8/16/1997 | Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 1/22/1901 | Nirmal Kumar Bose was born. |
| 1/24/1966 | Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board. |
| 8/11/1999 | Ramnath Parkar, former Indian opening batsman, died in Mumbai. |
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