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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
10/10/1896Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, was born at Jorhat, Assam.
9/18/1972Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
10/17/1903Guru Amardasji passed away.
1/26/2000Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu.
1/26/2000Babur Shah was declared as the Emperor of Dehli.
9/22/1992Indo-British Extradition Treaty signed in London.
8/7/1980Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
1/25/2000The Government awards Padma Vibhushan to R.K. Narayan, Dr.M.S. Gill; Padma Bhushan for Rajnikant and Padmashri for A.R. Rehman.