Year 1451
Bahlol Khan Lodi captured Delhi.
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19 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 19 April.
Year 1526
Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, laid the foundations of the Mughal rule.
Year 1770
Captain James Cook became the first Western man to reach Australia.
Year 1775
Beginning of the American Revolutionary war.
Year 1910
Anant Kanhere, Krishnaji Karve, and Vinayak Deshpande were executed.
Year 1948
Burma joined the United Nations.
Year 1950
Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet.
Year 1960
Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi.
Year 1971
Sierra Leone became a republic.
Year 1975
Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, launched from the Russian space station.
Year 1976
Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
Year 1976
Indira Gandhi proposes a resumption of ties with Pakistan in New Delhi.
Year 1981
Indira Gandhi,Prime Minister, inaugurated `Maharashtra Vidhanbhavan'.
Year 1993
Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle.
Year 1995
Gopala Ramanujam,Goa Governor, takes up additional charge of Kerala.
Year 1995
Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery.
Year 1997
I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda.
Year 1998
Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters.
Year 1998
Jayalalitha, AIADMK leader, demands that all ''tainted leaders'' be dropped by the Vajpayee Government or that Sedapatti R. Muthiah be taken back.
Year 2011
Fidel Castro resigned as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
Born 1868
Paul Harris, founder of the Rotary Club.
Born 1897
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
Born 1933
Dickie Bird, an English retired international cricket umpire.
Born 1956
Mukesh Rishi, an Indian actor.
Born 1957
Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire business magnate, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd.
Born 1968
Arshad Warsi, an Indian film actor.
Born 1977
Anju Bobby George, a retired Indian athlete.
Born 1987
Maria Sharapova, a Russian retired professional tennis player.
Died 1629
Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
Died 1882
Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist.
Died 1906
Pierre Curie, a French physicist.
Died 1910
Anant Laxman Kanhere, an Indian independence fighter.
Died 1955
Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.
Died 1974
Muhammad Ayub Khan, the second President of Pakistan.
Died 1994
Rajindersing Sparo, first awardee of `Mahavir Chakra' and former Chief Minister of Punjab Major General, passed away.
Died 2003
Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
Died 2004
Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records.
Died 2008
Sarojini Babar, an Indian-Marathi writer, and politician.
Died 2013
Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (b. 1936)