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Historical Event on 8/19/1907
Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born.
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| 4/22/1999 | Lok Sabha passes the 1999-2000 general budget through voice vote but without a debate and without amendments. |
| 7/8/1972 | Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta. |
| 10/9/1963 | Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died. |
| 4/6/1773 | James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born. |
| 12/1/1932 | A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London. |
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| 12/31/1943 | Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born. |
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