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Historical Event on 10/19/1925

B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1974Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.
8/7/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
7/29/1993Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha.
6/22/1971Habib Muhammad died.
4/18/1916Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away.
3/9/1999Rabri Devi is sworn in Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time.
1/24/1826Gnanendra Mohan Tagore, first Indian barrister, was born in Calcutta.
11/20/1999World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
6/17/1917Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba started living at Hriday Kunj in Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.