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19th OCTOBER TODAY IN HISTORY

Today in Indian History
Events for October 19

19-October-1689	Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.
19-October-1774	Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India.
19-October-1875	The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic.
19-October-1888	Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
19-October-1905	Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London.
19-October-1907	Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born.
19-October-1910	Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
19-October-1920	Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
19-October-1921	Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
19-October-1925	B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born.
19-October-1929	Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.
19-October-1954	Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
19-October-1967	Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
19-October-1970	First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
19-October-1974	T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died.
19-October-1979	T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
19-October-1983	Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
19-October-1983	Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
19-October-1990	The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution.
19-October-1997	BSP withdraws support to Kalyan Singh government in UP because of its 'anti-Dalit' policies.
19-October-1999	Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I).
19-October-2000	The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.