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1862, 19th June: The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1961, 19th June: Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1966, 19th June: ‘Shiv Sena’ a political party in India was founded in Mumbai.
1978, 19th June: Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1981, 19th June: India’s Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment (APPLE) satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched.
1989, 19th June: E. S. Venkataramaiah became the 19th Chief Justice of India.
1999, 19th June: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated the Maitreyi Express to Kolkata to Dhaka bus service.
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on June 19.
1595: Guru Hargobind, the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.
1623: Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic theologian.
1945: Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese politician.
1947: Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, and essayist.
1958: Mukesh Khanna, an Indian television and film actor.
1962: Ashish Vidyarthi, an Indian film actor, and motivational speaker.
1970: Rahul Gandhi, an Indian politician.
1985: Kajal Aggarwal, an Indian film actress, and model.
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on June 19.
1747: Nader Shah, one of the most powerful Iranian rulers.
1949: Syed Zafarul Hasan, a prominent twentieth-century Pakistani Muslim philosopher.
1956: Thomas J. Watson Sr., an American businessman.
1993: William Golding, a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
2020: Vidyaben Shah, an Indian social worker, and activist.
What happened in India on 19 June
19-June-1747
Nadirshaha passed away.
19-June-1871
Madhavrao Sapre was born.
19-June-1877
Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born.
19-June-1901
Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America’s highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.
19-June-1931
Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa.
19-June-1947
Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
19-June-1949
People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union.
19-June-1966
Shiv Sena was established.
19-June-1979
Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party.
19-June-1981
APPLE, India’s first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.
19-June-1990
NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.
19-June-1990
13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men.
19-June-1991
Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM.
19-June-1995
In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government’s majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House.
19-June-1995
India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary’s visit.
19-June-1996
Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI.
19-June-1997
Indian flag cargo ship, M. V. Arcadia Pride, sinks in inclement weather, seven nautical miles off Colaba, Mumbai, leaving four sailors dead and 20 missing. In the rescue and search operation by the Indian Navy, nine persons were rescued.
19-June-1997
Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir.
19-June-1999
The ”people’s bus” from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
19-June-2000
Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana.
19-June-2000
Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.