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Historical Event on 1/19/1963

Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1991Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.
12/19/1988Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.
9/29/1708British East India Company and New East India company merged.
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
10/17/1999Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language, was born.
1/25/1971Himachal Pradesh High Court was established at Shimla for Himachal Pradesh Territory.
9/11/1968Central Government provides more autonomy to hilly region of Assam.
9/11/1968Mughal 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.
11/15/1982Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra.