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Historical Event on 9/19/1704

Guru Govind Singh died.

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3/10/1998India 'A' beats Pakistan 'A' by 58 runs in the fourth test to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi.
4/5/1993K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election.
5/29/1979Perminder Singh Sangha, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway.
9/9/1872Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born.
12/9/1946The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy.
12/9/1946Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
10/29/1992Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem.
6/26/1888Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born.
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.