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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away. |
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Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 2/19/1670 |
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the great Maratha, was born. |
| 2/19/1812 |
Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma). |
| 2/19/1818 |
Bapu Gokhle, last General of Maratha kingdom, passed away. |
| 2/19/1855 |
U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born. |
| 2/19/1861 |
Rani Rashmoni, great nationalist, who compelled the British to abolish the tax imposed on fishing in the river, ingeniously blocking the trade and commerce on the part of Ganges, passed away. |
| 2/19/1891 |
Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
| 2/19/1895 |
Munshi Newal Kishore, great social worker, educationist, nationalist, philanthropist and a pioneer industrialist, passed away at the age of 59. |
| 2/19/1902 |
Pandit Lallu Ram appointed as Hindi Professor at Fort William College, Calcutta. |
| 2/19/1911 |
Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India. |
| 2/19/1915 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social reformer, political leader and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 2/19/1919 |
Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born. |
| 2/19/1922 |
Beant Singh, former Chief Minister of Punjab and politician, was born. He played a vital role in supressing terrorist activities in Punjab. |
| 2/19/1949 |
Mass arrests of communists in India. |
| 2/19/1956 |
Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away. |
| 2/19/1974 |
Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai. |
| 2/19/1978 |
Pankaj Mallik, famous Bengali music director and playback singer, passed away. He was the singer of the famous Hindi song ""Piya Milan Ko Jaana"". |
| 2/19/1986 |
Computerised railway ticket reservation system was introduced in New Delhi Railway station. |
| 2/19/1992 |
A 12-member Congress (I) TUJS coalition ministry led by S. R. Burman sworn in Tripura. |
| 2/19/1992 |
An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls. |
| 2/19/1992 |
The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab. |
| 2/19/1992 |
Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away. |
| 2/19/1993 |
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President. |
| 2/19/1993 |
SC Jamir elected leader of the Congress (I) Legislature Party in Nagaland. |
| 2/19/1993 |
Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 2/19/1994 |
Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 2/19/1994 |
IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time. |
| 2/19/1995 |
National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
| 2/19/1996 |
Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. |
| 2/19/1997 |
Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P. |
| 2/19/2000 |
18 people die following a fire on the Ferozepur-bound 2137-down Punjab Mail between Dushkeda and Savada stations near Bhusaval, about 433 km from Mumbai. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/22/1970 | Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died. |
| 7/10/1994 | Ramrao Raghoba Rane, Paramveer Chakra awardee, died. |
| 2/25/2000 | The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order discharging the former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, Ms. Jayalalitha, from the two TANSI deal cases. |
| 8/8/2000 | S.Nijalingappa (97), former Karnataka Chief Minister, died at his residence in Chitradurga. |
| 12/1/1932 | A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London. |
| 3/9/1914 | Hansaraj Rahbar, the unfolder of prominent personalities and dynamic writer, was born. |
| 8/13/1953 | Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc. |
| 6/30/1928 | Kalyanji, famous music director, was born. |
| 11/17/1973 | Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died. |
| 8/17/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka. |
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