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Historical Event on 1/19/1997
Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/14/1997 | 10th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened. |
| 5/11/1999 | Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people. |
| 5/20/1957 | Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist, politician, social reformer, leader and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, passed away at Hyderabad. |
| 9/16/1997 | General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA. |
| 6/13/2000 | Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir. |
| 10/2/1999 | Ban orders in Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. |
| 5/8/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998. |
| 10/17/1817 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of modern India, was born in Delhi. |
| 10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
| 9/30/1999 | India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'. |
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