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Historical Event on 1/22/1858
Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/25/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio. |
| 12/20/1993 | India and Council of European Union sign a co-operation agreement in Brussels. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it. |
| 3/11/1971 | Indira Gandhi wins majority in Parliament. |
| 1/3/1987 | Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died. |
| 1/1/1983 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"". |
| 12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
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