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Historical Event on 1/22/1922

Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/7/1934Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India.
6/22/1996Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut.
11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
10/31/1997Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai.
8/20/1905Lord George Curzon reigned as the Viceroy of India. He was then replaced by Lord Minto II, the Earl of Minto.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.
11/7/1950King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.
3/20/1977General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.
10/23/1996Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
2/11/1998The Punjab police unearth a plot to kill Prime Minister I. K. Gujral, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and Congress(I) leader Sonia Gandhi by a pro-Khalistan militant group.