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Historical Event on 5/19/1971
Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1829 | Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
| 6/20/1995 | B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1). |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 10/20/1920 | Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919. |
| 7/20/1993 | British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty. |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 8/2/1993 | CEC Seshan postpones all elections including by-elections to December in protest against the government's attempt to subjugate the Commission. |
| 10/3/1984 | India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
| 7/21/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission. |
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