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Historical Event on 5/19/1982

Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1998SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.
9/1/1956Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalised and merged in this corporation.
10/30/1996ITC $100 million scam, the country's biggest ever FERA violation case, was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate.
10/29/1999L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states.
5/9/1995Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.
3/20/1965Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi.
12/14/1895George VI, King of England (1936-52), was born.
6/29/1998Government decides to grant full statehood for Delhi and create three new States namely Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh.
5/13/1916Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.