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Historical Event on 2/19/1861
Rani Rashmoni, great nationalist, who compelled the British to abolish the tax imposed on fishing in the river, ingeniously blocking the trade and commerce on the part of Ganges, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 10/13/1991 | Captain Satish Sharma nominated to contest from Amethi. |
| 7/15/1986 | Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England. |
| 6/25/1922 | Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 9/4/1984 | Air Chief Marshal L. M. Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 01/07/1985. |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 11/24/1952 | Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda. |
| 2/18/1931 | Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born. |
| 9/23/1906 | Kumar (Mijjan) alias Syed Hasan Ali, film actor, was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He has worked in 'Shadows of the Dead', 'Dukhiari', 'Gambler', 'Patan ni Paniari', 'Thoure of Delhi'. |
| 2/21/1979 | Yousuf Hussain, litterateur and brother of President Zakir Hussain Khan, passed away. |
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