19th Dec – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Find out what happened on the 19th  of December in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occur 19th of December

 
Pratibha Devisingh Patil ((born 19 December 1934) is the 12th President of the Republic of India and first woman to hold the office. She was sworn in as President on 25 July 2007, succeeding Abdul Kalam and after defeating her rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
Mahi Gill (or Mahie Gill) is an Indian actress, working in the Bollywood industry. She is best known for her role of Paro in Anurag Kashyap’s critically acclaimed Hindi film Dev.D, a modern take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Bengali novella Devdas for which she also won the 2010 Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
Ankita Lokhande (born Tanuja Lokhande in Indore, India is an Indian television actor best known for playing the role of Archana Manav Deshmukh in Pavitra Rishta. She was born on 19 December 1984 in Indore.
Om Prakash (19 December 1919 – 21 February 1998) was an Indian character actor. He was born in Jammu as Om Prakash Chibber. He used to play the role of Kamla in the stage play by the famous Dewan Mandir Natak Samaj Koliwada.
Saswata Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor of television and films. Saswata is the son of famous bengali actor Subhendu Chatterjee. Saswata started his career with a Hindi serial directed by Saibal Mitra, based on Samaresh Majumdar’s Kaalpurush.

Death Anniversaries on 19th Of December

 
Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 – 19 December 1927) was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement who had given away his life along with Ram Prasad Bismil. Bismil and Ashfaq, both were good friends and Urdu poets (Shayar).
Khurram Murad or Khurram Jah Murad (1932–1996) an Islamic scholar occupies a place of distinction in the intellectual firmament of contemporary Islam. A thinker and a prolific writer, he has been one of the architects of current Islamic resurgence.
Thakur Roshan Singh (Birth: 22 January 1892 at Navada village of Shahjahanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, Executed: 19 December 1927 at Allahabad (Malaka/Naini jail), Uttar Pradesh) was an Indian revolutionary who was previously sentenced in the Bareilly Goli Kand (en. shooting case) during Non Cooperation Movement of 1921-22.
Giridharilal Kedia (25 August 1936 – 19 December 2009) was an Indian businessman and entrepreneur. He served the Kala Vikash Kendra, Cuttack for 12 years as the Working President and Trustee. Kedia was also the founder and chairman of Image Institute of Technology & Management.
Reymond Hervey de Montmorency (6 October 1871 – 19 December 1938) was an English cricketer. de Montmorency was a right-handed batsman who bowled both leg break and right-arm slow-medium. Born in Gonda, then in the British Raj, de Montmorency was the son of Major Reymond Hervey de Montmorency and Marion Ellen Coles.
 

Notable Event In History

 
1927 Uttar Pradesh was formed by an Automobile Association.
1945 Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews’ Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.
1961 Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
1984 2,500 killed in Bhopal gas tragedy.
2000 A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city.
 

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