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Historical Event on 5/19/1951
Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/1915 | Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) was born at Bandnagar, MP. |
| 8/7/1947 | BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 6/18/1997 | E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican. |
| 1/7/1990 | President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government. |
| 4/8/1992 | Congress (I) government led by Rajkumar Dorendra Singh sworn in in Manipur. |
| 12/1/1921 | Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab. |
| 12/15/1974 | Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died. |
| 1/3/1985 | Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings. |
| 11/10/1960 | First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State. |
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