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Historical Event on 7/22/1944

Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/20/1992Vithhal Badgelwar, painter and sculptor, passed away.
3/29/1869Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.
1/18/1906Nirupam Chandra Ganguli, criminal lawyer and sportsman, was born at Bhagalpur.
3/3/1996Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
5/8/1906Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born.
10/14/1989Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
6/25/1999PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham.
5/11/1998Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.