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Historical Event on 2/19/1992
The ruling Congress party wins local elections boycotted by Sikhs in Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/2/1996 | Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva. |
| 9/24/1856 | Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away. |
| 3/1/2000 | P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament. |
| 10/20/1999 | Quiet start to the 13th Lok Sabha. |
| 12/19/1919 | Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal. |
| 1/19/1839 | Aden conquered by British East India Company. |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 2/18/1925 | Krishna Sobati, famous Hindi authoress, was born. |
| 11/22/1999 | A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie. |
| 12/3/1971 | Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries. |
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