Austin Indian Community - AustinIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 2/19/1992

An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/2/1961Indian Limited Shipping Transport Corporation established.
2/2/1982Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also.
8/21/1995Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
12/23/1998Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
10/15/1949Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged.
3/23/1982Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away.
10/4/1974India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.
11/27/1881Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP.
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
3/10/1999Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote.