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Historical Event on 6/19/2000

Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1916Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
12/5/1950Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
1/18/1968The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
3/21/1921Indian National Congress decided it's Flag.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
5/3/1936Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey], famous singer, was born in Madras, India.
6/19/1947Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
5/15/1995PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit.