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Historical Event on 9/19/1933
Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1955 | India and Vietnam affirm the Panchsheel. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
| 11/7/1893 | Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 10/1/1928 | Shivaji Ganeshan, famous actor, was born. |
| 8/1/1920 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindu leader, died at Bombay. |
| 8/20/1997 | Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President. |
| 2/12/2000 | 17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly. |
| 1/31/1997 | Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5). |
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