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Historical Event on 1/19/1994

CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/19/1855G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
12/23/1920King George V signs Home Rule Act.
7/20/1993Chander Mohan, son of Haryana CM Bhajanlal, wins the by-elections in the Kalka assembly constitutency by a margin of 61,800 votes.
1/31/1992LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court.
4/2/1942Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
1/1/1998The Election Commission announces the poll schedule for the 12th Lok Sabha. The polling will be on February 16, 22, 28 and March 7. Simultaneously, elections are to be held for the Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies.
2/18/1906Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, chief of 'Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh' (RSS), was born.