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Historical Event on 5/19/1908
Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1908 | Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him. |
| 5/15/2000 | Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag. |
| 12/14/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award. |
| 3/22/1977 | Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum. |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
| 12/5/1999 | India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World. |
| 1/27/1972 | V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away. |
| 5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 6/21/1862 | Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University. |
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