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Historical Event on 8/19/1916

Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/23/1930Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
11/19/1994Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi.
4/23/1946Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence.
2/13/1989Aubrey Menen (76), Renowned writer, passed away in Kerala.
11/29/1948Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.
12/5/1898Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born.
5/11/1987President's rule imposed in Punjab.
9/15/1953S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.