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Historical Event on 7/19/1994

The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69\% reservation policy in the state receives the President's assent.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/6/1968Indira Gandhi,PM, inaugurated the construction of Bokaro Steel Plant.
3/27/199021 people die as a bus accidentally touched a high voltage wire in Karagpur India.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.á
4/13/1796The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India.
11/27/1935Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs), was born in Delhi
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
1/24/1948Australia all out 674 vs India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*).
3/5/1990Government announces an interim relief of Rs. 360 crore to 5 lakh victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
6/24/1990Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
9/6/1889Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist and leader, was born.