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Historical Event on 5/19/1980

T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/13/1958Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.
1/10/199627th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi.
2/18/1993Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya.
4/26/1929British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India.
2/2/1930Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away.
9/5/1988The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
9/26/1996Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
3/12/1992India and the US decide to hold joint naval exercises in the Indian ocean.
8/6/1993Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.