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Historical Event on 4/19/1993

Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1881Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha.
11/11/1998V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
8/13/1954Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
9/17/1999Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
1/8/2000The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
10/14/199210 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.