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Historical Event on 11/19/1997

1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/16/1939Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
10/27/1999P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
4/24/1959Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.
3/17/1905Narsinghcharya Purohit Tirunarayan Iyyangar, famous Kannad poet, music director and critic, was born.
9/4/19676.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people.
7/22/1678Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.