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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
1/11/1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
4/2/1902Gulam Ali Khan Ustad Bade was born.
12/22/1995A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
12/28/1972C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General, died.
2/3/1925First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
2/24/1867Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.
6/29/1901Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
5/1/1998India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.