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Historical Event on 8/19/1944

The last Japanese troops driven out of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/18/1995Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
4/5/1987The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
11/5/1951Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup.
12/29/1909Congress at Lahore adopts resolution praising Indians' struggle in South Africa and urged ban on indenture.
9/16/1955Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
7/14/1994Veerappan, Sandalwood smuggler, declared 'proclaimed offender'.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
12/26/1947K.M. Munshi is appointed Govt. of India's agent in Hyderabad State.
12/23/1912Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast.