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Historical Event on 11/19/1997
1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/15/1992 | CBI begins probe into the security scam. |
| 5/6/1971 | D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77). |
| 10/30/1977 | One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India. |
| 5/23/1975 | P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away. |
| 8/19/1946 | Cabinet Mission's plan announced an interim government, which was formed by reconstituting the Viceroy's Executive Council. The Muslim League took umbrage and started direct action. Riots broke out as Muslims attacked Hindu's in Calcutta and the rest of Bengal. The Viceroy persuaded the Muslim League to join the government. But the League declined to join the Constituent Assembly unless the demand for a seperate state of ""Pakistan"" was conceded. |
| 1/8/1890 | Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary. |
| 4/8/1946 | HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island. |
| 9/13/1992 | Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission. |
| 6/11/1995 | PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France. |
| 7/3/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
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