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Historical Event on 11/19/2000

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1782Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born.
3/25/1983Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea.
11/20/1942Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26.
9/25/1936Juliet Prowse, actress (Who Killed Teddy Bear) and dancer, was born in Bombay, India.
8/11/1893First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
2/14/1755Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
9/22/1931Gandhi meets Charlie Chaplin in London.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
4/20/1973Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur.
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.