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Historical Event on 2/19/1978
Pankaj Mallik, famous Bengali music director and playback singer, passed away. He was the singer of the famous Hindi song ""Piya Milan Ko Jaana"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/30/1949 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 6/20/1946 | Gandhiji attends Working Committee meeting from 20-21 June. |
| 9/12/1686 | Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist. |
| 4/22/1942 | The Telecommunication Training Centre was established at Jabalpur. |
| 7/8/1954 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated world's longest Bhakra-Nangal Dam canal at Punjab. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 10/6/1858 | Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first mutiny, died. |
| 10/30/1883 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer. |
| 10/11/1991 | Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated. |
| 11/15/1937 | Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska |
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