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Historical Event on 1/19/1905

Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
3/13/1878The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper.
11/15/1998Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.
8/1/1952Yajurvindra Singh Jaswant Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman four Tests 1977-79), was born in Rajkot.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
1/27/1972V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away.
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
8/27/1976Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters.
1/27/1987P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy (USA).