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Historical Event on 3/19/1999

Salgaocar emerged National Football League champions in Calcutta with a match to spare.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/12/1752Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar.
7/19/1990Planning Commission decides to make changes in the Gadgil formula for central assistance to States in consultation with states.
7/25/2000Two Indians Aruna Roy from Rajasthan and Jockin Arputham, founder of the Indian National Slum Dwellers' Association, chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay award for public service.
3/5/1699Maharaja Jaisingh-II crowned as King of Jaipur kingdom and sat on Amber throne.
9/18/1803Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.
11/12/1997India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
12/5/1933Balendu Shantilal Jain, famous hindi writer, was born at Kunchord, M.P.
9/3/1995Ram Jethmalani (lawyer and MP) launches a new party, Bharatiya Lok Panchayat, to rid the country of its evils.
9/3/1995Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.