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Historical Event on 2/19/1978

Pankaj Mallik, famous Bengali music director and playback singer, passed away. He was the singer of the famous Hindi song ""Piya Milan Ko Jaana"".

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7/19/1998The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly.
6/21/1940Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), passed away.
7/3/1897Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat).
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
12/20/2000The Government accepts the Eleventh Finance Commission recommendation to extend grants to all the States from the Incentive Fund.
6/25/2000India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
10/15/1888Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.
5/17/2000The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place.
5/17/2000The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali.
4/4/1999India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta.