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Historical Event on 2/19/1949

Mass arrests of communists in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1859Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.
10/12/1995Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.
11/28/1945Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta.
2/27/1992Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years.
1/15/1977Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.
10/5/1890Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born.
1/15/1921Babasaheb Anantrao Bhosle, eighth Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
6/11/1983Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89.
3/11/1915Vijay Samuel Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54), was born in Sangli, Maharashtra.