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Historical Event on 8/19/1944

The last Japanese troops driven out of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/19/1944Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
5/25/1606Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir.
12/29/1953The States Reorganisation Commission.
6/8/1997Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Assam Chief Minister, has a narrow escape as a powerful remote-controlled bomb exploded in Maligaon area of Guwahati.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
3/31/1959Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
11/14/1995National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi.
10/25/1983Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.
12/19/1994K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away.