| Date | Event Name |
|
Taimurlang passed away. |
| 1/19/1697 |
Maharana Pratap, the founder of Mewad and eminent personality, passed away. |
| 1/19/1839 |
Aden conquered by British East India Company. |
| 1/19/1855 |
G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born. |
| 1/19/1892 |
Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born. |
| 1/19/1905 |
Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away. |
| 1/19/1907 |
Mohammad Ali Mirza was crowned as the ""Shah-E-Iran"" in a grand function held in Royal Palace, Tehran. This coronation was performed on the precious throne ""Thakt-E-Taus"" which was made by Emperor Shahjahan, and was taken away from India during the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1738 AD. |
| 1/19/1910 |
Vinayak Damodar Karnaki (Master Vinayak), famous Marathi actor, director and producer, was born. |
| 1/19/1919 |
Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born. |
| 1/19/1919 |
Omprakash Mehra, former Indian Air Chief Marshal and former Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 1/19/1931 |
The first Round Table Conference held in London ended. This conference was attended by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar also. |
| 1/19/1932 |
Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow. |
| 1/19/1948 |
India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York. |
| 1/19/1951 |
Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away. |
| 1/19/1960 |
Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away. |
| 1/19/1963 |
Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away. |
| 1/19/1966 |
Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 1/19/1976 |
C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
| 1/19/1977 |
World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'. |
| 1/19/1982 |
Mizo National Front and allied organizations declared illegal. |
| 1/19/1982 |
Bombay High Court finds allegations against Chief Minister A. R. Antulay justified. Antulay resigns. |
| 1/19/1985 |
Dr. P. C. Alexander, principal secretary to the PM, quits following the arrest of three aides in an espionage case. |
| 1/19/1987 |
Narain Dutt Ojha made some sort of a record at the residence of the Chief Justice of India when he was sworn in as a Judge of Supreme Court at 10.00 p.m. |
| 1/19/1990 |
Mr. Jagmohan takes over the administration in J&K as the new Governor after CM Farukh Abdulla resigns. |
| 1/19/1990 |
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", Indian free love guru, modern mystic and controversial cult figure, died in Pune at the age of 58 years. He will be remembered as a great orator and for founding of Rajnishpuram in USA. |
| 1/19/1992 |
Manvendra Mukherji, famous singer and music director, passed away. |
| 1/19/1994 |
CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases. |
| 1/19/1995 |
Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson. |
| 1/19/1995 |
Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress. |
| 1/19/1996 |
Upendranath 'Ashk', noted Hindi literary figure known for his disputed writings, passed away. |
| 1/19/1997 |
Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit. |
| 1/19/1997 |
Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 1/19/1997 |
Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur. |
| 1/19/2000 |
M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai. |
| 1/19/2000 |
Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship. |
