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Historical Event on 8/22/1980

Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
12/23/1889Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
7/6/1901Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal.
6/22/1991M. Karunanidhi, DMK President, resigned from the Assembly.
11/25/1879Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement.
12/5/1991The government reduces visa fees for tourists intending to visit India.
1/21/1908Gandhiji agrees to settlement on basis of voluntary registration, if Registration Act is repealed.
7/28/1921Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India.
6/5/1995Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
1/22/1683Shri Samarth Ramdas passed away.