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Historical Event on 7/19/1993

Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/22/1942Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died.
12/17/1978Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.
5/4/1932Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.
10/28/1947Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K.
5/23/1984Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.
1/20/1993Karnataka ministry expanded to include 27 more members; S.M. Krishna made Dy. CM.
5/14/1992LTTE banned in India.
9/1/1999Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died.
8/11/1993Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.