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Historical Event on 2/19/1995
National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1991 | Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%. |
| 9/24/1947 | Pakistani raiders invade Kashmir. |
| 4/19/1976 | Indira Gandhi proposes a resumption of ties with Pakistan in New Delhi. |
| 4/21/1990 | 18 more ministers added in the National Front Ministry. |
| 12/12/1901 | Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called as ""Kala Bhawan"" and established the ""Barahamacharya Ashram"", the core of Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan, near Bolpur. It was formally opened on December. |
| 9/14/1992 | S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died. |
| 7/18/1980 | Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
| 12/13/1947 | Nicholas Raerich, great philosopher, master-artist, prolific writer, scientist, educator, designer, poet, humanitarian, explorer, leader and social worker, died at Naggar, Kulu. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
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