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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 6/19/1747 |
Nadirshaha passed away. |
| 6/19/1871 |
Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 6/19/1877 |
Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 6/19/1901 |
Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences. |
| 6/19/1931 |
Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 6/19/1947 |
Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 6/19/1949 |
People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union. |
| 6/19/1966 |
Shiv Sena was established. |
| 6/19/1979 |
Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party. |
| 6/19/1981 |
APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
| 6/19/1990 |
NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan. |
| 6/19/1990 |
13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men. |
| 6/19/1991 |
Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM. |
| 6/19/1995 |
In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government's majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House. |
| 6/19/1995 |
India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary's visit. |
| 6/19/1996 |
Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI. |
| 6/19/1997 |
Indian flag cargo ship, M. V. Arcadia Pride, sinks in inclement weather, seven nautical miles off Colaba, Mumbai, leaving four sailors dead and 20 missing. In the rescue and search operation by the Indian Navy, nine persons were rescued. |
| 6/19/1997 |
Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir. |
| 6/19/1999 |
The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
| 6/19/2000 |
Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 6/19/2000 |
Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/29/1997 | Rabri Devi inducts 60 ministers, including 22 of cabinet rank, thus raising strength of her Council of Ministers to 74. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/12/1991 | Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi. |
| 4/6/1993 | Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress (Deewana), died at the age of 19. |
| 10/4/1997 | J & K Assembly passed the Ladakh Hill Council Bill. |
| 6/24/1991 | The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP. |
| 12/11/1999 | Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. |
| 6/1/1790 | A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/20/1932 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables. |
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