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Historical Event on 12/19/1988

Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1666Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested.
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
11/17/199941 more ministers are inducted into the Ram Prakash Gupta Ministry in Uttar Pradesh taking the strength of the ministry to 91.
10/17/1999Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.
5/28/1970All India Trade Union Congress was divided.
12/17/1877Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi.
12/17/1877Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"".
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
9/20/1921Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi.