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Historical Event on 1/19/1976

C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
6/25/1932India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England.
11/16/1860First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa.
7/23/1918Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh.
8/5/1999Nisha Millet became the first Indian swimmer to receive the International Olympic Committee's Solidarity Scholarship, given to sportspersons with outstanding track record and possessing Olympic potential.
3/17/1920Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh.
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
10/15/1995PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
5/22/1963Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur.