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Historical Event on 2/19/1993
Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/1988 | 500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 6/1/1819 | William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 11/5/1961 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 12/3/1971 | Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries. |
| 9/27/1908 | Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 3/25/1898 | Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple. |
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