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Historical Event on 2/19/1818
Bapu Gokhle, last General of Maratha kingdom, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/2/1989 | France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta. |
| 8/13/1784 | East India Company was appointed as the centralised Regulatory Authority through India by Pitt's India Act, which was accepted in British Parliament in England. |
| 10/28/1964 | Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, passed away. |
| 1/28/2000 | Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 3/1/1908 | Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India. |
| 10/5/1949 | A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died. |
| 3/30/1913 | B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born. |
| 5/27/2000 | In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel. |
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