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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne. |
| 6/22/1880 |
Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 6/22/1897 |
The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. |
| 6/22/1898 |
The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India. |
| 6/22/1910 |
Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died. |
| 6/22/1917 |
Mohy-id-Din Hajini, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Kashmir (Hajin). |
| 6/22/1920 |
Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52), was born in Sangor, Vidarbha. |
| 6/22/1935 |
Vaman Viswanath Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 6/22/1940 |
Netaji Subhashchandra Bose established the 'Forward Block' after differences with Congress leaders. |
| 6/22/1944 |
British 14th army frees Imphal, Assam. |
| 6/22/1948 |
Emperor of India title was deleted from His Majesty the King of United Kingdom's titles. |
| 6/22/1955 |
Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (12 wkts in 7 Tests for India), died at the age of 31. |
| 6/22/1959 |
Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away. |
| 6/22/1971 |
Habib Muhammad died. |
| 6/22/1975 |
National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced. |
| 6/22/1982 |
19 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay. |
| 6/22/1991 |
M. Karunanidhi, DMK President, resigned from the Assembly. |
| 6/22/1993 |
JPC draft report raps B. Shankaranand and censures Manmohan Singh. |
| 6/22/1993 |
Ordinance to amend Consumer Act was issued; Government doctors and hospitals were kept out of its ambit. |
| 6/22/1993 |
The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides. |
| 6/22/1994 |
Law for the betterment of women introduced. |
| 6/22/1994 |
L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 6/22/1995 |
India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration. |
| 6/22/1996 |
Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1917 | Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal. |
| 8/15/1918 | Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born. |
| 4/7/1998 | Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 3/26/1972 | The first International Sanskrit Conference was held by President V.V Giri. |
| 11/6/1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops. |
| 11/5/1996 | United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 3/22/1915 | Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born. |
| 11/8/1948 | Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy. |
| 3/9/1994 | Devika Rani Roerich, the first lady of the Indian screen, died at the age of 87 years in Bangalore. |
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