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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
Date | Event Name |
03/19/1848 |
Lokhitwadi started his column 'Shatpatra' in the newspaper named 'Prabhakar'. |
03/19/1907 |
Dr. Dilawar Hussain, right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, was born. |
03/19/1911 |
Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"". |
03/19/1935 |
British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
03/19/1936 |
Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was born. |
03/19/1936 |
Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born. |
03/19/1939 |
Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad. |
03/19/1944 |
Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'. |
03/19/1954 |
The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea. |
03/19/1962 |
Raja Kelkar Museum, which belonged to Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, was opened for the people. |
03/19/1972 |
India and Bangladesh singed mutual aid treaty for peace and friendship for 25 years. |
03/19/1973 |
Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47. |
03/19/1982 |
President's rule in Assam. |
03/19/1982 |
Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer, nationalist, parliamentarian, founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal and president of Indian National Congress in 1946, passed away at the age of 94. |
03/19/1990 |
Madhu Dandavate,Union Finance Minister, submits Rs. 7,206 crore deficit budget with a mixed bag of new levies and concessions. |
03/19/1995 |
Vinaychandra Maudgal, founder of Gandharva Mahavidyalay of Delhi and music expert, passed away. |
03/19/1996 |
Election Commission announces dates of Lok Sabha elections (Apr. 27, May 2, 7 & 21) and Assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, West Bengal, Assam & Pondicherry. |
03/19/1997 |
BJP and BSP agree for a coalition government in Uttar Pradesh. |
03/19/1998 |
BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India. |
03/19/1998 |
Abdul Rauf Seddiopui, Samajwadi Party leader, is shot dead near Jadharpur village in Bareilly district. |
03/19/1998 |
E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
03/19/1999 |
Salgaocar emerged National Football League champions in Calcutta with a match to spare. |
03/19/1999 |
The banned Maoist Communist Centre kills 34 Bhumihars at Senari village in Jehanabad district in Bihar. |
03/19/2000 |
Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
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Other Historical Dates and Events |
08/05/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
04/01/1944 | Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India. |
08/09/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
11/05/1956 | Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
09/29/1997 | IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites. |
12/27/1987 | Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum . |
08/01/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
12/11/1926 | Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding |
08/12/1988 | S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM. |
10/22/1908 | John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India. |
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