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Historical Event on 7/22/1998
India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/21/1990 | The Bombay Sappers join the club of the select few, who received colours from the President of India (21-2-90). |
11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
3/12/1944 | No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram. |
12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
10/27/1937 | Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of 'Kirana Gharana', died. |
1/1/1903 | A vast crowd thronged the great plain outside Delhi today, waiting to hear the declaration that King Edward VII was Emperor of India. The crowd, clothed in brilliantly colored garments, was largely composed of common people who had come to the durbar to see India's princes pledge their fealty to the Emperor . The Duke of Connaught, representing King Edward, sat on the left of the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who sat on a throne surrounded by giant silver footstools. Lord Curzon spoke briefly, then read a message from the King, who expressed regret at not being present at the durbar and his wishes for ""the increasing prosperity of my Indian Empire."" Among the dignitaries in the amphi-theater were 600 veterans of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58. |
2/6/1992 | The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry. |
1/25/1989 | Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland. |
10/24/2000 | Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case. |
9/7/1988 | President's rule in Mizoram. |
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