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Historical Event on 4/19/1998

Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1993Five more Doordarshan channels launched.
2/19/1994IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.
6/6/1992Ordinance issued to attach the properties of persons involved in the security scam.
10/1/1991India takes over the presidency of Security Council with Ambassador G.R. Gharekhan in the chair.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
8/4/1906Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
2/12/1995Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
3/18/1944Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal.