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Historical Event on 2/19/1919
Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1919 | Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa under Albuquerque, the then Governor, to serve as capital of their Asian maritime empire beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans. |
| 4/3/1700 | Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals. |
| 5/9/1996 | Kerala CM A.K. Antony resigns. |
| 12/12/1930 | Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 1/1/1910 | Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.). |
| 6/17/1976 | Montreal Olympics opens. |
| 2/27/1993 | Samir Ranjan Barman, Tripura CM, resigns. |
| 6/17/1674 | Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
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