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Historical Event on 3/19/2000

Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1695Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
7/24/1993Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
3/17/1982President's rule in Kerala.
10/2/1999Ban orders in Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.
5/8/1933Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
8/23/1933Mahatma Gandhi was released from government detention in the Poona Civil Hospital after doctors warned that his fast was endangering his life. Gandhi, who undertook the fast eight days ago in protest over being arrested again by British authorities, weighed 90 pounds at the time of his release. There was considerable speculation over what the nationalist leader would do upon regaining his strength, but the common assumption was that he would be arrested again by the British authorities if he resumed his civil disobedience.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
6/16/1998Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi.