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Historical Event on 5/19/1980

T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1927Cargo Transportation service started between Calcutta and Bagdogra.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
1/21/1997First group of bank documents relating to Bofors case handed over to Indian Government.
11/2/1897Sohrab Meharwanji Modi, theatre and film producer, director and actor, was born.
6/28/1975As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.
2/6/1994Ram Mahadik, Congress leader, passed away.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
1/1/1976Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
9/8/1991Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.
3/16/1928C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore.