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Historical Event on 11/19/1997
1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1998 | Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in. |
| 10/25/1999 | US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrives. |
| 12/20/1993 | Bangarappa expelled from Congress for 6 years. |
| 7/1/1997 | Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta. |
| 6/22/1948 | Emperor of India title was deleted from His Majesty the King of United Kingdom's titles. |
| 3/30/1908 | Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born. |
| 4/20/1938 | Bhartacharya Chintamanrao Vinayak Vaidya, omnicient research scientist and expert of Marathi and English languages, passed away. |
| 1/21/1922 | V. Rajagopal, cricket test umpire for 1 test in 1969-70, was born in Mumbai. |
| 9/14/1774 | Bentik, first Governor General of India, was born. |
| 12/27/1976 | Yashpal, modern hindi litterateur, passed away. |
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