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Historical Event on 1/19/1997

Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/15/2000The Maharashtra Government gives the green signal to police to proceed against Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray for his alleged role in the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots.
6/20/1992The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate.
9/22/1952Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died.
4/8/1759British troops chase French out of Masulipatam, India.
5/8/1996Poll counting begins.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
1/16/1990All Governors asked to resign.
3/6/1947Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London.
12/9/1992More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.
2/16/1998Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league encounter in Chennai comes to an abrupt halt with Delhi skipper and batsman Ajay Sharma sighting boot marks short of the good length area.