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Historical Event on 11/19/1978

Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/3/1751Pilaji Jadhav died.
9/12/1922Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away.
12/4/1998Ilayaraja, nusic composer, selected for the Lata Mangeshkar award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government.
3/16/1880Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born.
4/10/1930Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay.
1/18/1994A 12-point formula mooted to defuse the ministerial crisis.
1/18/1994Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
11/9/1913Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
1/4/1954Judge Mehr Chand Mahajan became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 22/12/1954.