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Historical Event on 1/19/1855
G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 7/1/1913 | Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born. |
| 2/15/1967 | Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins. |
| 5/25/1996 | Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 12/26/1991 | Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India. |
| 9/16/1955 | Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81. |
| 10/28/1928 | M.G.K. Menon, Physics expert, was born. |
| 6/24/1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. |
| 7/1/1996 | RBI reduces cash reserve ratio to 12\%. |
| 9/3/1992 | Delhi High Court verdict on Bofors challenged in the Supreme Court. |
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