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Historical Event on 2/19/1992

A 12-member Congress (I) TUJS coalition ministry led by S. R. Burman sworn in Tripura.

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5/12/1998Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.
9/8/1911Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.
11/1/2000Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi.
10/9/2000The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.
7/22/1702The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company.
9/20/1993First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit.
1/18/1982Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi.
6/15/1948Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.