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Historical Event on 11/19/1994
Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/23/1913 | Indian Muslim Conference passes resolution demanding immediate self-government. |
| 11/21/1998 | India 'B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 6/13/1992 | Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 9/29/1932 | Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born. |
| 4/8/1774 | Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old. |
| 6/29/1992 | Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship. |
| 7/22/1997 | Govt. issues notification saying that Prasar Bharati Act, 1990 would come into force from Sept. 15. |
| 2/3/1977 | Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering. |
| 3/26/1942 | Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, was married to Feroze Gandhi. |
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