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Historical Event on 11/19/1962
Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/2000 | After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year. |
| 1/22/1980 | Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 3/21/1996 | Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences. |
| 3/4/1961 | First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast. |
| 1/27/1984 | First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam. |
| 6/12/1960 | 783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi. |
| 3/4/1997 | Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised. |
| 2/25/1894 | Meher Baba (1894-1969) of Poona, Indian saint of Persian origin and gifted with psychic powers of prediction, was born. The mystical teachings of this silent sage stressed love, self-inquiry and God consciousness. |
| 12/1/1993 | Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away. |
| 12/10/1998 | Dr. Gurudev S. Khush, rice breeder at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, wheat breeder at the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre, Mexico, share the Rank Prize announced in London. |
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