Today Importance - 19th October
19-Oct-1689
Sam bhaji's queen Isobar and her children surrendered the fort of Raigarh to the Mughals.
19-Oct-1774
Members of the Council and judges of the Supreme Court of England came to India to improve management.
19-Oct-1875
The first section was opened for traffic from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment.
19-Oct-1888
Gandhian poet and painter Namakkal Kavignar was born in Mohanur, Salem.
19-Oct-1905
The Prince and Princess of Wales began an official visit to India in London.
19-Oct-1907
Sulochana Modi, the first woman mayor of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, is born.
19-Oct-1910
Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's driving astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar received the highest prize in science, the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1983.
19-Oct-1920
Birth of Former Union Minister Prakash Chandra Shetty
19-Oct-1921
Pandurang shastri, the founder of 'Swadhyaya Parihar', was born in Atwal.
19-Oct-1925
Former Union Minister B. Birth of Sankarananda.
19-Oct-1929
Balbir Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948–56), is born.
19-Oct-1954
Nehru and Mao met in Beijing.
19-Oct-1967
Dr. C.V. Raman explained his new theory on wave motion in terms of vision and dim light.
19-Oct-1970
The first Indian-made MiG-21 has been handed over to the Air Force. Privy handbags and honours of previous Indian rulers were cancelled.
19-Oct-1974
Renowned Tamil stage artist T.S. Rajamanikam Pillai passed away.
19-Oct-1979
T.R. Balu was born in Thallikottai district. Tiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
19-Oct-1983
Professor Subramaniam Chandrasekhar shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with American Professor William Fowler.
19-Oct-1983
The Central Government took over the management of 13 textile enterprises in Bombay; The marathon strike in the cotton industry has ended.
19-Oct-1990
Under an ordinance, the Government of India presented a three-pronged formula on the Ayodhya issue: (i) acquire the land (ii) except for the disputed land, other land can be given for construction of the temple (iii) refer the issue to the Supreme Court. Can go for quick fix.
19-Oct-1997
The BSP withdrew support to the Kalyan Singh government in UP because of its 'anti-Dalit' policies.
19-Oct-1999
Congress (I) says that Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha.
19-Oct-2000
The government maintains an electronic database of all major central laws of all India from 1834 to 1996.
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