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Historical Event on 2/19/1949

Mass arrests of communists in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1993India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England.
1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.
4/2/1996Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) party registered and recognised.
4/29/1924Purushottam Ramchandra Behr, famous writer and Editor of Marathi literature, was born.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
12/31/1956Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, died at the age of 80.
10/3/1977Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.
3/18/1948Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.