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Historical Event on 12/19/1961
Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/10/1920 | Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 5/8/1959 | Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China. |
| 7/31/1940 | Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London. |
| 2/23/1997 | Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India. |
| 10/9/1996 | 27-member ministry of National Conference headed by its president Dr. Farooq Abdullah sworn-in in J&K. |
| 2/24/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi released from jail. |
| 3/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
| 10/14/1919 | Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born. |
| 12/8/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.) |
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