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Historical Event on 11/19/1985
Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/28/1964 | A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader. |
| 5/23/1914 | The British India Steamship Co. and the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co. announced their amalgamation at London. |
| 1/17/1923 | Rangey Raghav, famous hindi writer, was born. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 8/30/1645 | Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty. |
| 12/16/1999 | Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha. |
| 12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
| 2/13/1991 | Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/28/1909 | Jairaj, famous film actor, was born. His first film was 'Sparkling Youth' (1930). He was a receipant of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Some of his films are 'Fight unto Death', 'All for love', 'Bhawani No Bhog', 'Pearl', 'Queen of Faries', 'The Enemy', 'My Hero'. |
| 1/2/1973 | General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall. |
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