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Historical Event on 2/19/1996
Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 3/11/1903 | Shrinagesh M. M, former General, was born. |
| 4/15/1996 | Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa. |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 1/7/1956 | Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy. |
| 2/12/1998 | Om Prakash, 78, Hindi film comedian, passed away in Mumbai. |
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