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Historical Event on 1/19/1948
India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 7/8/1988 | More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala. |
| 5/25/1999 | India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
| 6/7/1997 | At least 37 persons were feared killed in a fire in ''yagyashala'' at Thanjavur Big Temple. |
| 7/14/1997 | India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting. |
| 9/8/1911 | Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 8/15/1772 | Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company. |
| 10/2/1955 | Nehru inaugurated an Integral Coach factory at Perambur. |
| 5/23/1995 | TADA expires and new Anti-Terrorists Activities Law proposed. Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1995, voting put off; Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 1995. |
| 5/1/1909 | Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers. |
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