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Historical Event on 12/19/1994

K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1986Kashinath Ghanekar, famous stage artist, passed away.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
10/3/1880Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi.
6/18/1992Congress (I) chooses Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma as Presidential candidate.
1/16/1973Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/01/1976.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.
5/13/1952Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry.
3/22/1957National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was "Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.