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Historical Event on 6/19/1901

Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.

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2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
1/16/1966Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune.
7/2/1929Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died.
12/25/1921Mass boycott greets the Prince of Wales when he arrives in Calcutta.
3/25/1999Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore.
1/20/1988Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, better known as Sarhadi Gandhi or Frointier Gandhi, passed away.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
4/4/1938Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
3/30/1993Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
4/1/1989Bengal regains Santosh Trophy by beating Kerala.