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Historical Event on 1/19/2000

M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/2000The Board of Control for Cricket in India adopts a six-point code of conduct for the players.
1/21/1980Assembly elections in Kerala; LDF wins absolute majority. E.K. Nayanar forms government in Kerala.
8/7/1980Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.
8/6/1991Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.
6/6/1903A full length theatre plays like 'Bankimchandrer Sitararn', 'Alibaba' , 'Bhramar', 'Hariraj' , 'Sarla' and 'Buddhadeb' were released at Classic Theatre. These plays were picturised by Hiralal Sen with support of great dramatist Amar Nath Dutt. The main roles were performed by Amar Dutt, N.C. Basu and Kusum Kumari and rest of the characters belonged to the Classic Theatre of Calcutta. They received a great applause from the audience.
3/4/1990V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue.
7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.