March 19

The India–Bangladesh Pact of Friendship, Cooperation, and Peace was a 25-year treaty signed on March 19, 1972, between India and the newly founded state of Bangladesh. The pact was also known as the Indira–Mujib Treaty, after its signatories, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. During the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, India supplied considerable aid, training, and shelter to the exiled government of Bangladesh and the Bengali nationalist Mukti Bahini guerrilla army battling the Pakistani Army. During 1971, between 8 and 10 million migrants streamed into India, heightening tensions between India and Pakistan.
Willis was engaged to actress Brooke Burns for ten months before their breakup in 2004. Moore was there on March 21, 2009, when Bruce Willis married Emma Heming. Clearly, friendly connections have been maintained among all parties involved. His three kids, as well as Moore and Kutcher, were among the visitors. Because the ceremony was not legally binding, the couple married again six days later in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Smriti Zubin Irani, an actress turned politician, was born into a Punjabi middle-class family in Delhi. Her husband, Ajay Kumar Malhotra, is from a Punjabi family. He used to own a modest courier service. Her mother is of Bengali origin. Smriti is widely regarded as one of India's most progressive female leaders. Before becoming a famous politician, Smriti Irani was a popular TV actress. She began her first job as a waiter. She was born on March 23, 1976, to Bengali mother Shibani Bagchi and Punjabi-Maharashtrian father Ajay Kumar Malhotra.
Nadir Shah, led by Persian and Turkish soldiers, ended his conquest of the Mughal Empire on March 21, 1739, by taking Delhi, India, its capital. He grabbed great stocks of gold, and among the things he took was the legendary Peacock Throne. Nadir Shah fared no better than his splendid throne. He maintained his fighting ways, erecting an empire beset by financial difficulties and repeated revolts against his ruthless reign. He was assassinated by soldiers of his own army in 1749.
Timothy Dalton is an English actor who was born on March 21, 1946. He made his cinematic debut as Philip II of France in the 1968 historical drama The Lion in Winter, after beginning his career on stage. He rose to worldwide notoriety as the fourth actor to play fictitious secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series.
Alka Yagnik (born March 20, 1966) is an Indian playback singer who mostly performs in Hindi films. She has been characterised in the media as one of Bollywood's most renowned and successful playback singers. Throughout her four-decade career, she has recorded songs for films and albums in a variety of Indian languages, and she has received numerous awards, including two National Film Awards, two Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer from a total of thirty-six nominations.
Surya Sen was born on March 22, 1894, in Noapara, Chittagong, to Sashibala and Ramaniranjan Sen, both teachers. He was raised by his uncle, Gourimoni, after losing both of his parents at a young age. When he was a student at Chittagong College in 1916, one of his lecturers encouraged him to participate in revolutionary activities in the battle for the country's liberation. Surya Sen, inspired by patriotic ideas, raised the banner of 'Anushilan Samity,' a revolutionary organisation. While the professed motivation for the 'Chittagong Armoury Raid' was to attack the purportedly impregnable twin bastions of British authority, the true goals were considerably bigger.
In India, March 23 is known as Shaheed Diwas, or Martyrs' Day. On this day, India's three liberation warriors, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru, were hanged. On March 23, 1931, the colonialists executed three young freedom fighters who believed in the philosophy of making some noise to rouse up the slumbering British overlords at Lahore Jail. Leader of the group and one of Punjab's most respected young voices were hanged as the British felt terrified of mere 3 young men.
Khushwant Singh (February 2, 1915 – March 20, 2014) was an Indian novelist, lawyer, diplomat, journalist, and politician. His experiences during India's 1947 partition prompted him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (which was adapted into a film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel. Khushwant Singh received the Padma Bhushan in 1974, but returned it in 1984 in protest at Operation Blue Star, in which the Indian Army stormed Amritsar. In 2007, he received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.
Kangana Ranaut, an Indian actress, is well-known in the Bollywood film business. She is well-known for her incredible acting abilities and tough roles. She was born on March 23, 1987, in the Himachal Pradesh district of Nandi. Her siblings include an older sister, Rangoli Chandel, and a younger brother, Akshat. Kangana picked science as a topic after finishing school and aspired to be a doctor, as her parents desired. Kangana became interested in acting and chose to visit Bollywood. She made her Bollywood debut with Gangster.
Manabendra Nath Roy, who lived from March 21, 1887 to January 25, 1954, was an Indian Communist revolutionary, radical activist, and political thinker, as well as a renowned twentieth-century philosopher. Roy established the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India. He was also a delegate to Communist International congresses and Russia's adviser to China. Following Joseph Stalin's ascension to power, Roy quit the mainstream communist movement to pursue an independent radical politics. Vinay Roy was involved in the creation of the Radical Democratic Party in 1940, an organisation in which he was a key figure throughout most of the 1940s.
The High Court of Uttarakhand, India, ruled on March 20, 2017, that "the rivers Ganga and Yamuna, and all their tributaries...are declared as juristic/legal persons/living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person in order to preserve and conserve river Ganga and Yamuna." The public celebration of this decision derived legitimacy from global discourses and legislative movements granting "rights to Nature," but it ignored other human plans for water, most notably the ambition to centralise control of all basin extractions and uses under a single authority.
He took over a Shell filling station on US Route 25 just outside North Corbin, a little town on the outskirts of the Appalachian Mountains, in 1930. By June, he had transformed a storage into a tiny eating area, complete with his own dining table, where he served passengers delicacies such as steaks and country ham. Sanders Court & Café primarily serviced visitors, so when Interstate 75 was planned to bypass Corbin in 1955, he sold his buildings and travelled the country to sell his chicken idea to restaurant owners.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA for short, is the world's biggest animal rights group, with over 700,000 members. Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco founded the organisation on March 22, 1980, with the goal of "complete animal liberation," opposing the use of animals for food, study, entertainment, and even as assistance dogs for the physically crippled. The organisation is well-known for its spectacular PR stunts, contentious commercials, and a never-ending stream of inflammatory public remarks from its leaders. It has repeatedly been chastised for using harsh techniques and has been tied to various incidents of animal rights violence.
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21, 1980), popularly known as Ronaldinho Gacho or just Ronaldinho, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who mostly played as an offensive midfielder but was sometimes used as a winger. Ronaldinho, recognised as one of the finest players of his generation and by many as one of the greatest of all time, earned two FIFA World Player of the Year honours as well as a Ballon d'Or. He was a global soccer star known for his technical prowess, inventiveness, dribbling ability and accuracy from free kicks, use of trickery, feints, no-look passes, and overhead kicks, and ability to score and create goals.
In his State of the Union speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi advocates for social distance and announces the formation of the COVID-19 task team to solve economic difficulties. In a televised speech to the nation, the prime minister declared a 'Janata Curfew' from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 22, 2020 to halt the spread of the coronavirus, which has already claimed four lives and infected at least 169 people in the country. "Under the 'Janata Curfew,' no one will leave their homes. It would also prepare us for the next days," PM Modi stated, implying that such isolation campaigns may be necessary in the future to halt the spread of COVID19.
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