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Historical Event on 2/19/1919

Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1964Unit Trust of India' established.
9/3/1997Anjan (Lalji Pandey), well known lyricist and noted poet, died.
1/19/1839Aden conquered by British East India Company.
1/14/1946Two jetties collapse in Ganges; 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed.
6/19/1979Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party.
6/19/1979Firuz Shah Bahmani died.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
10/5/1990Parliament passed the 76th Amendment Bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months from November 10, 1990.
4/15/1976India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years.
9/5/1997CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.