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Historical Event on 6/22/1880

Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/20/1774New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.
11/25/1999Baba Amte, a Gandhian and noted social worker, is chosen for the Gandhi Peace Prize.
7/12/1949Ban on RSS lifted on the assurance that it abjures violence.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
8/20/1885First meeting of the Indian National Congress held.
6/8/1915P.C.Kuttikrishnan 'Urub', Malyalam story writer and novelist, was born.
6/8/1915Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312.
7/18/1946U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.
3/31/1992The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions.