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Historical Event on 11/19/1982
9th Asian Games started in Delhi.
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| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 10/5/1999 | India decides not to attend the special meet on CTBT. |
| 1/3/1921 | First Indian Parliament meets. |
| 4/4/1999 | India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta. |
| 7/31/1992 | Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award. |
| 10/1/1919 | Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar, famous Marathi poet and screenplay writer, was born. |
| 6/13/1992 | Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 9/1/1928 | Arun Kumar Seal, educationist, was born at Vishnupur. |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 8/6/1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan. |
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