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Historical Event on 1/19/1977
World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
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| 3/4/1996 | King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit. |
| 4/12/1976 | India set 403 to win against the West Indies. |
| 8/15/1918 | Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born. |
| 5/6/1922 | Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48. |
| 5/6/1922 | Turkish Armada retired.The arrival of a new Portuguese fleet. |
| 9/21/1992 | Tarachand Barjatya, film producer, passed away. |
| 4/25/2000 | West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district. |
| 11/23/1983 | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi. |
| 3/8/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India. |
| 12/31/1995 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, Indian Air Force. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1998. |
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