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Historical Event on 1/19/1997

Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
12/24/1999Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
1/27/1994Union Cabinet approves inclusion of the land reforms laws in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.
5/23/1923Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52), was born in Calcutta.
9/14/1820Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning.
7/6/199339 people were killed and three officials abducted in J&K .
11/19/1999New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
9/19/1704Guru Govind Singh died.