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Historical Event on 4/19/1997

I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
12/8/1930British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists.
9/24/1992Five selected regional TV channels go national by direct linking to INSAT.
12/17/1990N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
8/10/1992Ram Niwas Mirdha appointed Chairman of the JPC on scam.
3/5/1993The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
5/2/1974700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
7/10/1924Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
8/17/1909Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka.