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Historical Event on 10/19/1888
Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/14/1972 | Fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces along the Kashmir border reported. |
| 10/28/1984 | Federal agents early this morning caught Guru Shree Rajneesh trying to flee the country. Rajneesh was charged with violating immigration laws and arranging phoney marriages for his cult members. The religious leader was nabbed at Charlotte, North Carolina airport when his jet, bound for Bermuda, touched down for re-fueling. The Bhagwan ran a commune of about 1,500 people in Oregon. Thousands more cult members live in Rajneesh's native land India and other countries. He knew the federal government had no faith in him after his chief adviser, a woman named Ma Anand Sheela, was arrested in West Germany for several minor offenses. Rajneesh appeared in court on this date clad in a lavender robe. |
| 10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
| 1/8/1995 | Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan, passed away. |
| 5/29/1936 | Gandhi's eldest son creates a controversy as he converts to the Muslim faith. |
| 4/3/1984 | Soyuz T-11 carried three cosmonauts along with the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma to Salyut 7. |
| 2/6/1985 | Vikram Kumar, Soccer(Football) player, was born. |
| 6/24/1986 | Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. |
| 5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
| 7/23/1997 | India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. |
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