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Find out what happened on 19th January 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 occurred 19th January
Rima Kallingal is an Indian model and film actress, predominantly appearing in Malayalam cinema. After being named First Runner Up in the Miss Kerala 2008 contest, she went to pursue a career in acting
Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar
Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one of the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.
Anjan Dutt is a popular singer- songwriter of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by anyodharar gaan (alternative songs). Anjan Dutt’s style of music is different from the others in the sense that it has simple tunes, one that is reminiscent of western folk music
Karun Chandhok is an Indian racing driver, who competed for Hispania Racing in Formula One in 2010. Before this, he drove in the GP2 Series for three years, winning two races. Prior to his time in GP2, Chandhok won the Formula Asia championship in 200
Death anniversaries on 19th January
Osho , born Chandra Mohan Jain, and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher
Anna Leonowens was an English travel writer, educator, and social activist. She worked in Siam from 1862 to 1868, where she taught the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. She also co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Leonowens’s experiences in Siam were fictionalised in Margaret Landon’s 1944 bestselling novel Anna and the King of Siam
Debendranath Tagore was one of the founders in 1848 of the Brahmo Religion which today is synonymous with Brahmoism the youngest religion of India and Bangladesh. A Bengali, he was born in Shilaidaha
Bijon Bhattacharya was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality from Bengal. Bijon was born in 1917 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) in a Hindu Brahmin family, and was early a witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land
Bijon Bhattacharya was a prominent Indian theatre and film personality from Bengal. Bijon was born in 1917 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) in a Hindu Brahmin family, and was early a witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land.
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1045 Taimurlang passed away.
1697 Maharana Pratap, the founder of Mewad and eminent personality, passed away.
1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company.
1855 G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
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