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Historical Event on 5/19/1979

Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/3/1996Bomb blast kills six and seriously wounds 20. Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claim responsibility in Delhi.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
3/28/1941Netaji Subhashchandra Bose reached Berlin after his secret underground journey from Calcutta.
1/23/1978The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions.
2/10/1946Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.
8/16/1996CBI raids house of former minister Sukh Ram and finds cash and jewellery to the tune of Rs. 3 crore.
4/5/1987The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
1/11/1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
1/20/1952Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
2/10/1995PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister.