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Historical Event on 4/19/1976
Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 9/21/1898 | Tushar Kanti Ghosh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 5/6/1967 | Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President. |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
| 3/30/1913 | B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 6/27/2000 | Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, launches National Initiative for child protection of which childline is an integral part. |
| 5/12/1937 | George VI is crowned. |
| 1/30/1988 | Sheshrao Wankhede, barrister, passed away. |
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