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Historical Event on 3/19/1962
Raja Kelkar Museum, which belonged to Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, was opened for the people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/6/1756 | British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India. |
| 6/13/1731 | Swedish East India Company was formed. For 15 years King Fredrick of Sweden gave the Company a charter. |
| 10/9/1994 | Kamal Bose, great photographer, died. |
| 9/24/1999 | India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. |
| 1/30/1994 | Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets. |
| 2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
| 1/1/1974 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""World Population Year"". |
| 8/12/1988 | S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 1/18/1942 | Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies. |
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