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Historical Event on 3/19/1973

Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1648Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed.
10/2/1944Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday.
1/26/1995Dr. Nelson Mandela attends India's 46th Republic Day celebration as national guest.
2/12/1995Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
10/1/1995Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died.
11/8/1927Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan).
7/16/1992Amar Varma, Hindi author, producer and director, died.
6/12/1972D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died.
2/7/1994C. T. Kamdar, famous industrialist and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.