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Historical Event on 5/19/1951

Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1846British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.
1/10/199324th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi.
12/26/1904First cross-country motor car race inaugurated between Dehli and Bombay started its rally. It was organised by Motor Union of Western India.
6/7/1997At least 37 persons were feared killed in a fire in ''yagyashala'' at Thanjavur Big Temple.
8/17/1998The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent.
8/3/1954Atomic Energy Department established.
4/21/1998The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.
6/15/1991General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
9/1/1999Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, appointed Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court.