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Historical Event on 6/19/1947

Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/27/199511 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
11/27/1992Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
2/20/1950Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
3/7/1996Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians.
4/29/1957The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India.
1/31/1963Peacock declared as National Bird of India.
7/20/1955Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar.