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Historical Event on 11/19/1997

22 persons killed and 30 injured when car bomb explodes outside film studio in Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad. The deceased include Eanadu TV crew of six people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1935Vaman Viswanath Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests), was born in Madras.
12/15/1894Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
4/24/1918Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born.
12/3/1993Bahadur Prasad wins silver in 1500 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
6/7/1997Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan's Rika Hiraki claim the mixed doubles.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
8/15/1947Brigadier Thakur Mahadeo Singh was the first Indian Commandant. He was the DSO of Indian Militery Academy.
6/19/1991Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM.
6/19/1991Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.