19 April Today in Indian History (English)

Created by MentorJi in Today In History 19 Apr 2024
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Historical Events on April 19.


  1.  1451, 19th April: Bahlol Khan Lodi captured Delhi.


  1.  1526, 19th April: Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, laid the foundations of the Mughal rule.


  1.  1770, 19th April: Captain James Cook became the first Western man to reach Australia.


  1.  1775, 19th April: Beginning of the American Revolutionary war.


  1.  1910, 19th April: Anant Kanhere, Krishnaji Karve, and Vinayak Deshpande were executed.


  1.  1948, 19th April: Burma joined the United Nations.


  1.  1971, 19th April: Sierra Leone became a republic.


  1.  1975, 19th April: Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, launched from the Russian space station.


  1.  2011, 19th April: Fidel Castro resigned as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.



Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on April 19.


  1.  1868: Paul Harris, founder of the Rotary Club.


  1.  1933: Dickie Bird, an English retired international cricket umpire.


  1.  1956: Mukesh Rishi, an Indian actor.


  1.  1957: Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire business magnate, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd.


  1.  1968: Arshad Warsi, an Indian film actor.


  1.  1977: Anju Bobby George, a retired Indian athlete. 


  1.  1987: Maria Sharapova, a Russian retired professional tennis player. 



Death Anniversaries of famous people on April 19.


  1.  1882: Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist.


  1.  1906: Pierre Curie, a French physicist.


  1.  1910: Anant Laxman Kanhere, an Indian independence fighter.


  1.  1955: Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.


  1.  1974: Muhammad Ayub Khan, the second President of Pakistan.


  1.  2003: Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 


  1.  2004: Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records.


  1.  2008: Sarojini Babar, an Indian-Marathi writer, and politician.




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