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Historical Event on 1/19/1951

Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
1/20/2000J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year.
8/11/2000Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away.
10/26/1999The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.
4/8/1831Ram Mohan Roy landed in England.
9/26/1931At Lancashire, Gandhi sees textile workers hurt by Indian boycott but says home spinning must go on.
11/27/1778Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon.
12/24/1972Daily newspaper ""Janshakti"" published it's first edition at Jalgaon.
3/16/1912Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.
6/16/1993Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded.