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Historical Event on 11/19/1977
Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1964 | Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler), was born in Calcutta. |
| 5/1/1994 | Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established. |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
| 3/10/1940 | Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born. |
| 5/20/1994 | Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden. |
| 5/21/1923 | Keshavrao Kothavle `Lalit', editor of monthly magazine, was born. |
| 4/3/1912 | M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur. |
| 11/5/1951 | Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup. |
| 9/9/1997 | Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master. |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
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