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Historical Event on 3/19/1973

Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1997Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel.
7/1/1997Nasiru'd-din Muhammad Shah I passed away. His son-in-law Ghiyasu'd-din Balban succeeded Nasiru'd-din Mahmud in Delhi.
9/7/1968Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.
4/21/1996Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag.
5/13/1967Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President.
8/25/2000Veerappan seeks release of 121 prisoners, including 51 booked under TADA at the Mysore prison and compensation to victims of STF excesses 
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.
3/28/1986Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India.
1/18/1936Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story).