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Historical Event on 2/22/1858
Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/23/1976 | Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation. |
| 11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 8/17/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka. |
| 10/5/1991 | Vinayakrao Devrukhkar, famous playwright, novelist and editor of a daily newspaper 'Sandhya', died. |
| 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. |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
| 9/7/1993 | India and China sign border peace accord. |
| 2/11/1847 | Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp, was born at Milan, Ohio. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
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