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Historical Event on 5/19/1979

Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
7/7/1901J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta.
1/21/1980Assembly elections in Kerala; LDF wins absolute majority. E.K. Nayanar forms government in Kerala.
10/21/1997Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.
5/13/1967Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President.
3/31/1972Meena Kumari, famous film actress, passed away.
8/17/1997I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October.
5/17/19764 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak.
9/29/1992Forex norms relaxed for wide range of purposes.
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.