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Historical Event on 1/19/1997

Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1997Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992.
8/13/1947Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house.
9/21/1862Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telegu poet, playwright, story writer, critic and social reformer, was born.
1/1/1926Mohammad Abdul Hye, educationist, was born at Alitangani, (Nowgong).
5/8/1725John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, passed away in a battle.
10/21/1989Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.
10/14/1985Assam Ganparishad established.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
10/5/1949A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died.
9/1/1999Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, appointed Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court.