19 June - India on this day21 events

13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men.

Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI.

Madhavrao Sapre was born.

Pandurang Chimanaji Patil, famous agriculturist of Maharashtra, was born.

Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.

Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa.

Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.

People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union.

APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.

NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.

India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary's visit.

Indian flag cargo ship, M. V. Arcadia Pride, sinks in inclement weather, seven nautical miles off Colaba, Mumbai, leaving four sailors dead and 20 missing. In the rescue and search operation by the Indian Navy, nine persons were rescued.

The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.

Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir.

Nadirshaha passed away.

Shiv Sena was established.

Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party.

Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM.

In an unprecedented move, UP Speaker Dhani Ram Verma adjourns the two-day special session called to prove Mayavati Government's majority in the House. Later, the House gathers, rejects the sine die adjournment and unanimously elects B.R. Verma (BSP) as new presiding officer to conduct the business of the House.

Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana.

Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.