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Historical Event on 2/19/1992

An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/18/1946First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese.
8/12/1997Bar Council of India debars full-time law teachers from practising as lawyers.
8/26/1997Employee Provident Fund scheme of 1952 amended to ensure that all PF claims are settled within 30 days from the date of receipt of claims by the PF Commissioner.
9/18/1909Kilachand Ramdas, famous merchant, was born.
9/1/1930Suhasini Ganguly, freedom fighter, was arrested and send to Hijali Jail for her revolutionery activities. She later lived a low profiled life after release from prision.
11/10/1968Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati.
11/30/1982World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi.
2/8/1936Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda.
7/26/1910Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination.
7/8/1928Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.