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Historical Event on 3/19/1995
Vinaychandra Maudgal, founder of Gandharva Mahavidyalay of Delhi and music expert, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1975 | P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away. |
| 4/4/1912 | Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born. |
| 12/23/1954 | Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence. |
| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 8/1/1882 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.). |
| 8/15/1994 | Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies. |
| 2/19/1992 | Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away. |
| 10/1/1997 | Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah. |
| 11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
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