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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 |
4/16/1930 | Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000. |
1/28/1996 | Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82. |
12/11/1992 | UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court. |
7/29/1997 | Rabri Devi inducts 60 ministers, including 22 of cabinet rank, thus raising strength of her Council of Ministers to 74. |
12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
8/27/1998 | India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar has an audience with the legendary Sir Don Bradman at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide. |
4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
5/20/1972 | Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta. |
5/5/1971 | India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi. |
5/12/1949 | S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US. |
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