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Historical Event on 11/19/2000

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
7/29/1876Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta.
1/21/1943Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police.
10/27/1928Dattaji Krishnarao Gaekwad, father of Anshuman and batted in 11 Tests 1950's, was born in Baroda.
8/18/2000The Supreme Court rejects a petition filed by former Navy chief Vishnu Bhagwat challenging his dismissal from service and the consequent direction stripping him of the title Admiral.
8/19/1757The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
3/1/1971General Election ( 5th) of India begins.
9/12/1990Konkan Railway project formally launched with the opening of a project office in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra State.
3/31/1935374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.
9/22/1979Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean.