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Historical Event on 1/19/1997
Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/14/1998 | S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai. |
| 4/9/1974 | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh reach pact to exchange prisoners of 1971 war in New Delhi. |
| 3/10/1939 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India. |
| 1/16/1992 | For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 6/13/1998 | India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad. |
| 7/5/2000 | Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore. |
| 6/4/1997 | Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan. |
| 10/30/1963 | Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai. |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar. |
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