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Historical Event on 7/19/1969
Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/24/1990 | Surjit Singh Barnala sworn in as Governor of Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 3/14/1910 | Dalai Lama makes a rare state visit to the Viceroy of Calcutta. |
| 10/30/1996 | Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case. |
| 7/8/1914 | Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born. |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 4/15/1992 | D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away. |
| 7/30/1960 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader. |
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