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Historical Event on 3/19/1911
Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"".
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| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal. |
| 6/18/1879 | Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 8/13/1947 | Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house. |
| 7/21/1995 | Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away. |
| 3/10/1993 | The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns. |
| 6/13/1879 | Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born. |
| 9/6/1903 | Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow. |
| 3/30/1977 | Swami Agnivesh merged his 'Bhartiya Aryasabha Party' in Janata Party. |
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