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Historical Event on 2/19/1855
U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
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| 9/7/1993 | India and China sign border peace accord. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
| 12/24/1905 | Sen Triguna, educationist and technologist, was born. |
| 3/15/1946 | Attlee offers India full independence after agreement on constitution in London. |
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| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
| 7/29/1904 | Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, president of Tata industrial group, was born in Paris, France. He was the first pilot of India to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna. |
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