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Historical Event on 2/19/1994

IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
3/20/1965Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi.
1/6/1664Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat.
6/11/1907Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi, famous Hindi writer, was born in Mehmadabad, Gujarat .
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
7/24/1999Vimala Ranadive (84), senior CPI(M) leader, died in Mumbai.
8/7/1934Gandhi begins a fast for penance following the violent treatment of a Hindu leader by some of his followers.
8/1/1955Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P.
9/8/1953Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at.
3/23/1923Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon.