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Historical Event on 9/19/1962

Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1959Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai.
10/9/1993C. R. Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India, 8 runs @ 2.66, 9 wkts @ 54.78), passed away.
3/1/1901Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born.
12/24/1999Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
3/23/1919Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".
12/12/1964Maithili Sharan Gupta, famous Indian poet, Hindi litterateur, writer, social worker, patriot and Padma Bhushan awardee, died.
11/30/1998Ghasiram Yadav (74), member of Parliament representing Alawar in Rajasthan and former MLA and Minister in the State, died in Jaipur.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
3/19/1935British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23.