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Historical Event on 6/19/1947
Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
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| 4/20/1989 | R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court. |
| 4/3/1994 | B. Rachaiah,Kerala Governor, takes charge of Goa. |
| 1/24/1957 | Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made. |
| 12/11/1929 | Subhash Pandharinath ""Fergie"" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), was born in Bom |
| 11/5/1961 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States. |
| 12/22/1998 | Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998. |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
| 3/4/1996 | King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit. |
| 4/8/1973 | India takes control over Sikkim after anti-government riots. |
| 2/24/1997 | Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail. |
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