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Historical Event on 2/19/1994

IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1818The last battle was fought in Rampura between the Marathas and the company.
4/12/1967U. Thant,UN Secretary General, receives the first Nehru Award for international understanding.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
6/17/1947Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly.
7/26/1956Godavarish Mishra, famous Oriya poet, playwright and essay writer, died.
3/4/1895Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born.
5/15/1729Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away.
7/19/1925Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P).
10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
10/30/1994Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.