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Historical Event on 12/19/1995
Unidentified aircraft drops a heap of sophisticated arms and ammunition, including AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers and anti-tank grenades in Purulia district in West Bengal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/1984 | A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 6/13/1992 | Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 9/27/1995 | Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi. |
| 6/17/1824 | Bureau of Indian Affairs established. |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
| 8/10/1927 | Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 4/15/1658 | Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb's advance towards Agra. |
| 1/21/1980 | Assembly elections in Kerala; LDF wins absolute majority. E.K. Nayanar forms government in Kerala. |
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