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Historical Event on 10/19/1929

Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.

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3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
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4/8/1985India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster.
12/11/1922Dilip Kumar, famous film actor, was born.
5/28/1963Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India).
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5/4/1959Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.