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Historical Event on 9/19/1991

Lok Sabha passes unanimously the Places of Worship Special Provisions Bill for maintaining the status quo of religious places as on 1947.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1993Kazakhstan offers Baikonur facilities to India.
5/11/1998Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft.
2/24/1995A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act.
8/4/1894Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat.
12/19/1961Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
4/30/1909Sant Tukdoji Maharaj, great saint, patriot and social worker, was born at Yawali, district Amravati.
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
7/25/1997Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
5/24/2000The Supreme Court rejects the proposal for setting up benches outside Delhi.