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Historical Event on 6/19/2000

Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1992The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched.
8/1/1952Yajurvindra Singh Jaswant Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman four Tests 1977-79), was born in Rajkot.
8/1/1988Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.
1/25/1980Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.
1/18/1999Prof. Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is selected for Bharat Ratna.
12/28/1926Shirish Kumar, freedom figher, was born.
2/14/1959Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.
8/15/1947The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
12/5/1931Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born.
10/24/1930Raj Bagri, Indies and British merchant in metal, was born.