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Historical Event on 8/19/1996

Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
11/19/1998Shruti Khanna won her Maiden title on Indian soil in the Northern India Ladies Championship at the Delhi Golf Course.
12/8/1932Indian Air Force Act was passed.
6/2/2000Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award.
8/4/1931Narendra Shankar Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1950's), was born in Bombay.
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
2/1/1968United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.