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Historical Event on 12/19/1988

Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1906Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born.
3/31/1992Madhav Sinh Solanki, External Affairs minister, resigns on Bofors letter issue.
6/9/1997Portfolio changes were effected by I K Gujral in Union Cabinet.
8/27/1987B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
1/3/1995PM inaugurates 82nd Indian Science Congress at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
4/1/1930Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys. This is presently remodified.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
10/3/1999India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore.