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Historical Event on 11/19/1994
Aishwarya Rai, selected 'Miss World' at the age of 21 in the beauty contest held at the 44th convention at Sun City, South Africa .
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1922 | T. A. Pai, former Central Minister and bank expert, was born. |
| 9/25/1947 | Kashmir accedes to Indian Union. |
| 7/11/1630 | Rezabeebeth Sookeas Begum passed away. |
| 2/10/1943 | Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3. |
| 6/19/1997 | Indian flag cargo ship, M. V. Arcadia Pride, sinks in inclement weather, seven nautical miles off Colaba, Mumbai, leaving four sailors dead and 20 missing. In the rescue and search operation by the Indian Navy, nine persons were rescued. |
| 1/15/2000 | Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan. |
| 2/1/1992 | Mohan Choty, comedy film actor, passed away. |
| 5/15/1817 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
| 2/18/1992 | Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab. |
| 7/13/1912 | Shriman Narayan, educationist, administrator and diplomat, was born in Etawah, U.P. |
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