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Historical Event on 2/19/1994
Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1883 | Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta. |
| 1/28/1937 | Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
| 6/2/1990 | Sri Ram Sharma Acharya passed away. (27-6-91). |
| 11/18/1925 | Madhukar Gopal Pathak, noted author and film director, was born. |
| 6/14/1998 | S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai. |
| 7/17/1997 | K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state. |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 2/13/1997 | Deve Gowda, PM, dedicates the Rs. 3200-crore 480 MW Uri hydel project in north Kashmir to the nation. |
| 1/2/1878 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and first president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, was born at Perunna village, Kerala State. |
| 11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
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