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Historical Event on 5/19/1993
S. W. Sohoni, 4 Tests for India, 83 runs @ 16.6, 2 wkts @ 101, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1990 | The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections. |
| 4/12/2000 | Ban on LTTE for two more years from May 14, says the Union Home Minister L. K. Advani. |
| 10/16/1952 | Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 10/26/1946 | 27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta. |
| 12/17/1990 | N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 4/7/1962 | Umrigar slams 172* vs WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 6/18/1633 | Revairu Diogu, dictionary creator of Konkani language and Jezoet Priest, died. |
| 12/26/1991 | Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India. |
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