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Historical Event on 1/22/1998
Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1925 | Kasturbhai Lalbhai Shrenik, great industrialist, was born at Ahmedabad. |
| 3/16/1977 | Sixth General Election of India begins. |
| 9/14/1923 | Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born. |
| 6/11/1995 | PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France. |
| 8/7/1990 | Union Cabinet approves setting up of Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service. |
| 2/23/1998 | Raman Lamba, former Indian Test cricketer, passed away in Dhaka, three days after being hit on the head while close-in fielding. |
| 5/6/1993 | Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled. |
| 9/29/2000 | A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt. |
| 4/22/1958 | Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff. |
| 4/7/1920 | Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India. |
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