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Historical Event on 9/19/1996

India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/4/1999Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor.
9/17/1997Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
5/20/1991A. S. L. V. was launched.
6/28/1996India opens its office (based in Gaza city) in the area under the Palestinian Authority.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
4/9/1756Ali Bardi Khan of Bengal passed away in Murshidabad. His youngest daughter's son Siraj-ud-Daulah was crowned as King of Bengal when he was merely 20 years old after the death of King Tartar.
3/7/1961Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
5/8/1725John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, passed away in a battle.
12/1/1993Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.