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Historical Event on 1/19/1997

Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
6/17/1976Montreal Olympics opens.
12/8/1994At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured.
11/7/1958Nehru said the role of Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan in Pakistan had increased the 'risk and danger of war' between India and Pakistan.
5/31/1987Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
6/11/1983Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89.
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
12/1/1982Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games.
10/13/1999Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.
10/26/1999The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.