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Historical Event on 8/19/1993

Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1995Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died.
4/3/1992Nagaland brought under President's rule.
1/3/1947Gandhiji toured the riot-affected areas in Bihar from January 3 to January 29.
8/1/1990Devi Lal, Dy. PM, dropped from Union Cabinet following wild charges he made against colleagues in an interview with the 'Illustrated Weekly'.
8/16/1974A.Shankar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31st March 1977.
7/10/1978'Mahatma Phule Backward Class Development Corporation' (Mahatma Phule Magaswarg Vikas Mahamandal) was established.
7/10/1978Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj.
2/16/1968Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.