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Historical Event on 1/19/1966

Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
4/27/1942Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India.
11/17/1999India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'.
11/29/1962Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
9/30/2000The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
4/3/1680Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, great Maratha emperor, patriot, soldier, freedom fighter, revolutionary and great son of India, passed away at Raigarh fort. His son Sambhaji succeeded to the throne.
5/16/1960International Telex Service between India and U.K. started.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.