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Historical Event on 11/22/1928
British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/8/1992 | Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent. |
| 7/25/1961 | Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961. |
| 3/3/1700 | Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort. |
| 12/16/1921 | Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river. |
| 1/9/1997 | John Major, British Prime Minister, addresses plenary session of the 'Partnership Summit' organised in Calcutta by the Confederation of Indian Industry. |
| 7/30/2000 | Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women claim the Federation Cup basketball tournament at Visakhapatnam. |
| 5/11/1919 | Troops under General Barrett inflicted a sharp reverse today on the invading Afghans at Bagh Springs. The whole of the frontier area was up in arms with tribesmen threatening Landi Khotal and martial law being proclaimed in Peshawar. It was expected however that General Barrett, well equipped with guns and airplanes, would soon control the situation. Reports had been reaching London for some time about the possibility of an Afghan incursion following the murder of the pro-British Emir Habibullah. His third son, Amanullah Khan, who took over the throne, was known to be hostile toward the government of India. |
| 1/31/1994 | Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism, died of leukemia. |
| 1/22/1989 | DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election. |
| 5/14/1993 | Bombay High Court upholds Goa C.M. Ravi Naik's disqualification by speaker under anti-defection bill. |
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