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Historical Event on 8/22/1992

Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1989Rajindernath, great Indian wicketkeeper 1 Test and 0 runs 0 ct, 4 stp, passed away.
8/16/1886Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa dies at the age of 50. His real name was Gadadhar Ghatterji. An Indian mystic, leader and saint, he preached unity of religions. Swami Vivekanand was his disciple.
10/31/1990Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead.
9/27/1703More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England.
10/15/1888Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
6/17/1994Twelve opposition legislators in Sikkim resign.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
11/29/1926Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.