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Historical Event on 8/19/1757
The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/12/1965 | Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay, Indian middle-order batsman), was born in Mangalore. |
| 3/28/1997 | Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins. |
| 2/14/1959 | Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 7/14/1636 | Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan. |
| 9/7/2000 | The Election Commission de-recognises the Lok Shakti, headed by former Union Minister Ramakrishna Hegde, as a state party on the basis of its performance in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 1999. |
| 12/1/1911 | Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born. |
| 11/27/1907 | Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. |
| 12/27/1975 | 372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state. |
| 4/12/1917 | Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar. |
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