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Historical Event on 1/19/1960

Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/7/1987In a case filed by Saira Banu of Kerela, Supreme Court held that all wives, including Muslim women, whose husbands have either married again or taken a mistress are entitled to maintenance.
9/6/1996CBI arrests four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leaders in bribery case.
10/9/1992Sukha and Jinda, assassins of former army chief Gen. A. S. Vaidya, hanged in Pune jail.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
2/13/1977Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away.
1/3/1975Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.
2/20/1992Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
3/10/2000Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister, submits his resignation without putting his motion of seeking a trust vote to test in the assembly. The RJD leader Rabri Devi meets the Governor and stakes claim to form the Government.
2/12/2000Ashok Shandilya wins the men's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore.