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Historical Event on 2/19/1812

Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma).

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7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
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