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Historical Event on 12/19/2000

A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1901Balakrishna Janardan Mohoni, cricket Test Umpire for 11 Tests from 1948-57, was born in Maharashtra.
1/10/1996Supreme Court tells Arunachal Pradesh to give protection to Chakma refugees.
11/2/1956Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.
9/16/1954The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
1/26/1961Special stamps dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in the Champion of Liberty series issued by the United States postal department.
2/18/1871Vishnubuwa Brahamchari, first missionary of Hindu religion, passed away.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).