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Events for January 19

19-January-1045	Taimurlang passed away.
19-January-1597	Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him.(19 or 29).
19-January-1697	Maharana Pratap, the founder of Mewad and eminent personality, passed away.
19-January-1839	Aden conquered by British East India Company.
19-January-1855	G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
19-January-1892	Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born.
19-January-1905	Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away.
19-January-1907	Mohammad Ali Mirza was crowned as the ""Shah-E-Iran"" in a grand function held in Royal Palace, Tehran. This coronation was performed on the precious throne ""Thakt-E-Taus"" which was made by Emperor Shahjahan, and was taken away from India during the invasion of Nadir Shah in
19-January-1910	Vinayak Damodar Karnaki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, was born.
19-January-1919	Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born.
19-January-1919	Omprakash Mehra, former Indian Air Chief Marshal and former Governor of Maharashtra, was born.
19-January-1931	The first Round Table Conference held in London ended. This conference was attended by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar also.
19-January-1932	Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow.
19-January-1948	India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York.
19-January-1951	Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away.
19-January-1960	Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away.
19-January-1963	Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away.
19-January-1966	Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
19-January-1976	C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died.
19-January-1977	World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
19-January-1982	Mizo National Front and allied organizations declared illegal.
19-January-1982	Bombay High Court finds allegations against Chief Minister A. R. Antulay justified. Antulay resigns.
19-January-1985	Dr. P. C. Alexander, principal secretary to the PM, quits following the arrest of three aides in an espionage case.
19-January-1987	Narain Dutt Ojha made some sort of a record at the residence of the Chief Justice of India when he was sworn in as a Judge of Supreme Court at 10.00 p.m.
19-January-1990	Mr. Jagmohan takes over the administration in J&K as the new Governor after CM Farukh Abdulla resigns.
19-January-1990	Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", Indian free love guru, modern mystic and controversial cult figure, died in Pune at the age of 58 years. He will be remembered as a great orator and for founding of Rajnishpuram in
19-January-1992	Manvendra Mukherji, famous singer and music director, passed away.
19-January-1994	CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases.
19-January-1995	Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
19-January-1995	Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress.
19-January-1996	Upendranath 'Ashk', noted Hindi literary figure known for his disputed writings, passed away.
19-January-1997	Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
19-January-1997	Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta.
19-January-1997	Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur.
19-January-2000	M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.
19-January-2000	Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.