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Historical Event on 2/19/1949
Mass arrests of communists in India.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/19/1955 | Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore. |
12/30/1971 | Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, famous nuclear scientist, died. |
2/8/1881 | Faiyaj Khan, famous Indian classical singer, was born. |
2/6/1966 | Madurai Kamraj University established. |
9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
10/11/1988 | Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President. |
9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
10/21/1995 | L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi. |
11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
6/11/1999 | India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men. |
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