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Historical Event on 10/19/1907

Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.
7/31/1990Charan Singh Rathi at New Delhi sets record for 20 km W. in 1.25.48\_\_.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
10/31/1997Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai.
9/4/1990An all-party meeting refuses to endorse the decision to implement Mandal Commission Report according to which 27\% jobs are reserved for backward communities.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
4/13/1972Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, passed away.
8/16/1997Krishan Kant, Andhra Pradesh's Governor, elected as the Vice President of India.
2/28/1997The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11.
5/19/1980T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away.