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Historical Event on 9/19/1997

India wins the Sahara Cup by winning the third match too.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1997P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
2/28/1835Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20.
4/24/1973Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay.
6/6/1986Militant Sikhs in Amritsar call for the murder of Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister of Punjab and J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of Police.
1/1/1955Shantiswaroop Bhatnagar, famous Indian Chemical Expert, died.
1/26/1965Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India.
12/4/1894Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).
1/27/1987P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy (USA).