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Historical Event on 8/19/1996
Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1999 | Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang. |
| 12/17/2000 | The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off. |
| 3/3/2000 | Nitish Kumar, Samata Party leader, sworn in Bihar Chief Minister. Governor V.C. Pande's decision evokes widespread criticism. |
| 4/12/1997 | Maharashtra assembly adopts bill banning interviews for admitting students to pre-primary schools. |
| 2/9/1994 | Supreme Court sets aside disqualification (under anti-defection law in 1991) of former Goa CM Ravi Naik. |
| 11/13/1922 | Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 5/10/1901 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". |
| 3/3/1997 | Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi. |
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