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Historical Event on 9/19/1996

India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1967Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died.
3/3/1989Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.
6/9/1998Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days.
6/9/1986First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai.
3/14/1993India seeks Interpol's assistance in investigating the sources of bomb blasts in Bombay.
1/12/1992India and Russia sign a new political treaty.
7/31/1997Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
3/3/1700Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort.
7/8/1914Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born.