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Historical Event on 12/19/2000
A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/11/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 8/27/1990 | The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 1/22/2000 | India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka. |
| 2/11/1997 | A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments. |
| 8/3/1898 | Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
| 5/22/1927 | M. S. Shivsankaraiyah, cricket test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Andhra Pradesh. |
| 7/1/1947 | Independence of India Bill passed. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 1/1/1985 | United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"". |
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