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Historical Event on 8/22/1993
V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/2/1985 | Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 5/25/1999 | India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
| 3/31/1992 | The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions. |
| 8/26/1984 | An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers. |
| 12/6/1929 | British Viceroy meets with Indian leaders to discuss dominion status for India. |
| 2/1/1929 | Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born. |
| 2/19/1992 | Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away. |
| 7/4/1902 | Swami Vivekanand (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian religious leader and social reformer, died at Memorial Rock, KanyaKumari. His brilliant career came to a sudden end only at the age of 39. |
| 8/23/1947 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. |
| 8/25/1994 | Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52. |
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