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Historical Event on 3/19/1999
Salgaocar emerged National Football League champions in Calcutta with a match to spare.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1986 | Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away. |
| 12/4/1977 | Ajit Agarkar, promising Indian ODI all-rounder, was born. |
| 10/23/1959 | Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border. |
| 12/11/1963 | Kewalam Madhav Panikkar, veteran politician and famous historian, passed away. |
| 10/11/1927 | Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 1/18/1950 | India is declared a secular republic. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964) is determined to abolish casteism and industrialize the nation. Constitution makes Hindi official national language, English to continue for 15 years, 14 major state languages are recognized. India also moved a motion for no war treaty between India and Pakistan to improve the relations with neighboring countries. |
| 11/12/1946 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85. |
| 3/5/1916 | Biju Patnaik, famous Oriya leader and Chief Minister, was born. |
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