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Historical Event on 4/19/1997
I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/6/1997 | International Commodity Exchange Division of the India Pepper and Spice Trade Association in Kochi opened. |
| 4/22/1921 | Subhas Chandra Bose, resigned from Indian Civil Service, and formed South Calcutta Sevak Samiti after returning to India. He was also arrested for carrying our freedom movement. |
| 1/4/1967 | Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft. |
| 1/4/1967 | Mughal conqueror Babur Shah (1483-1530) defeats Ibrahim Lodi II, the Lodi Sultan of Delhi, and captures Delhi and the Koh-i-noor diamond, in the First Battle of Panipat. He founded the Mughal dynasty in India (1526-1761), consolidated by his grandson Akbar. |
| 1/8/1906 | Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta, was inaugurated. |
| 8/20/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 5/25/1996 | Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots. |
| 11/5/1998 | Baba Nagarjun ""Vaidyanath Mishra"" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are ""Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh"", ""Dukhmochan"", ""Yugdhara"" and ""Sah |
| 9/7/1906 | Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered. |
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