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Historical Event on 2/19/1994
IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1893 | Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore. |
| 1/3/1996 | Karnataka agrees to release 6 tmc ft. of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, bowing to PM's order. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 8/1/1970 | Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India. |
| 9/18/1958 | Dr. Bhagwan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, passed away. |
| 3/17/1992 | Suburban rail fare increase cut; 20\% hike in first class, second class A/C sleeper and chair car reduced to 15\%. |
| 6/24/1986 | Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. |
| 12/22/1866 | Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar. |
| 7/11/1980 | Ebbie Kodiat, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Kuwait. |
| 4/1/1969 | India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore. |
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