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Historical Event on 7/22/1998

24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/1925Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh was established.
6/24/1980Varahagiri Venkata Giri, former president of India, died at Madras.
8/8/1990Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died.
12/4/1993Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
8/7/1871Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta.
6/3/1999Flight Lieutenant K. Nachiketa is handed over by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the Indian High Commissioner inside the High Commission premises.
12/1/1966Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.
5/10/1927Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born.
7/16/1997V. S. Rama Devi, Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha, appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.