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Historical Event on 8/22/1993
Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1921 | Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39. |
| 3/4/1994 | Lech Walesa, Polish President, visit India. |
| 6/20/1972 | Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey, great Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/1/1913 | Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born. |
| 9/29/1942 | The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession. |
| 10/12/1961 | Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 1/28/1865 | Lala Lajpat Rai 'Punjab Kesari', great valiant freedom fighter, social reformer, humanitarian and lawyer, was born in Dhudike village of Ferozepur district, Punjab. |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 10/26/1950 | Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras. |
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