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Historical Event on 1/19/1855

G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/22/1998The Patents Bill gets Rajya Sabha approval.
1/27/1987P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy (USA).
11/28/2000Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi.
3/9/1996India wins India-Pakistan World Cup Quater Final cricket match in Bangalore (Wills World Cup). This was the last international match played by Javed Miandad.
3/26/1931New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
8/15/1872Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.
2/7/1931Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
5/28/1978A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed.