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Historical Event on 5/19/1979

Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1973The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
12/23/1972Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi.
2/18/1992Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away.
9/7/1995Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral.
5/1/1998India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
9/14/1932Durgavati Devi aka Durga Bhabhi, an revolutionary and freedom fighter, was born.
2/14/1658Dara Sulaiman Shukoh was defeated in the struggle for Delhi throne Shuja's in the battle of Bahadurpur near Varanasi.
9/27/1999Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.