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Historical Event on 2/19/1993
Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 3/17/1910 | Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away. |
| 4/3/1912 | M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur. |
| 3/10/1954 | The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954. |
| 2/8/1948 | Indian govt. bans Muslim groups 'Khaksars' and 'League National Guard'. |
| 10/30/1977 | One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India. |
| 11/23/1993 | 'The Bullshit'', a Turkish film, wins the Golden Elephant award at the 8th International Childrens film festival in Udaipur. |
| 11/23/1993 | Firuz Shah Bahmani died. |
| 5/19/2000 | A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency. |
| 6/20/1992 | The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate. |
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