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Historical Event on 10/19/1983
Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 10/5/1864 | Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died. |
| 6/2/1965 | The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India). |
| 7/9/1875 | The Bombay Stock Exchange, the first in India, was constructed under the shade of a large banyan tree. |
| 2/25/1894 | Meher Baba (1894-1969) of Poona, Indian saint of Persian origin and gifted with psychic powers of prediction, was born. The mystical teachings of this silent sage stressed love, self-inquiry and God consciousness. |
| 2/14/1998 | 13 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed. |
| 1/12/1953 | Patel Chest Institute opened by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. All India Khadi Board constituted with centre at Bombay. |
| 4/15/1658 | Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb's advance towards Agra. |
| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 6/9/1992 | LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala. |
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