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Historical Event on 2/19/1812
Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1923 | Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi. |
| 8/18/1923 | Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan) in the battle of Machiwara. |
| 3/25/1905 | Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born. |
| 2/8/1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 4/14/1950 | Sri Raman Maharshi, modern south Indian saint, passed away . |
| 5/6/1946 | Bhulabhai Desai, great politician, passed away. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 11/8/1927 | Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan). |
| 6/1/1959 | National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director. |
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