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Historical Event on 11/19/1994
Aishwarya Rai, selected 'Miss World' at the age of 21 in the beauty contest held at the 44th convention at Sun City, South Africa .
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/9/1873 | Henry Albert John Gidney, greatest leader and politician, was born in Igatpuri, Maharashtra. |
| 3/20/1904 | Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 11/10/1901 | Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 2/6/1950 | N. R. Pillai was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 13-05-1953. |
| 6/3/1818 | Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 3/2/1994 | Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up. |
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