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Historical Event on 7/19/1998

Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/14/1987Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
5/28/1883Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, was born at Bhagur village near Nasik.
6/23/1993Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
7/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
10/30/1928Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai.
6/5/1996Kubernath Rai, well known writer, passed away.
6/14/1996CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.
2/20/1863Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born.
1/10/1897Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.
11/23/1948The beseiged garrison of Punch was relieved a full year after its siege. This meant that a firm grip had been established all the way from Pathankot on the major portions of this province.