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Historical Event on 2/19/1895

Munshi Newal Kishore, great social worker, educationist, nationalist, philanthropist and a pioneer industrialist, passed away at the age of 59.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1968First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
8/17/1882Sir Ram Nath Chopra, noted professor of Pharmacology, was born.
6/1/1947Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born.
8/8/1967Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.
3/21/1979Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.
10/19/1689Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.
3/6/1971Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
10/11/1986Mother Teresa escapes unhurt from a plane crash which killed six in Tanzania.