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Historical Event on 8/22/1993
V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/14/1976 | Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force. |
| 2/1/1969 | Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta. |
| 2/18/1911 | World' s first official airmail flight service with 6,500 letters and post cards was made between Bamrauli to Naini (Allahabad) on February 18, 1911. |
| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 2/11/1997 | India and Russia agree on a package of trade and economic cooperation measures, following Foreign Minister I K Gujral's discussions in Moscow. |
| 2/26/1858 | Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam). |
| 8/15/1947 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India. |
| 11/6/1998 | Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah. |
| 5/1/1923 | Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India. |
| 11/21/1991 | R. Nagarajan, former Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, arrested for harbouring LTTE militants. |
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