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Historical Event on 7/22/1978

Indira Gandhi charged with criminal misconduct during 1977 campaign.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1931Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue.
12/27/1797Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra.
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
5/17/1980Chandbibi made treaty with Murad and gave 'Varhad' area to Mughals.
8/30/1659Aurangzeb plotted the death of his brother Dara Shikoh and beheaded him. He was buried in a vault under the dome of Humayun's tomb.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
3/15/1831First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
10/15/1686Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.