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Historical Event on 8/19/1992

K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1919Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
12/13/1984The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect.
3/28/1943S. Satyamurti, social reformer, politician and member of legislative council at Madras, died. He was born in Tirumayyam village in August 19, 1887.
7/13/1916Ramkrishna Bakre (Tatya), veteran journalist and music critic, was born.
4/17/1941Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities.
8/19/1910Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala.
12/25/1763Suraj Mal Jat, Maharaja of Bharatpur, was killed by Najib-ud -Daulah s troops.
4/16/1992Arjun Singh, Pawar, Antony win CWC polls.
4/3/1914Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's first Field Marshal, was born. He was better known as ""Sam Manekshaw"".
12/11/1906Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.