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Historical Event on 10/22/1997

Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1885Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
1/5/1985Rajiv Gandhi promises to solve the Punjab problem without yielding to 'separatist ideologies.
1/26/1961Special stamps dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in the Champion of Liberty series issued by the United States postal department.
2/9/1964Hanumant Singh scores 105 runs on his debut match during the India vs England cricket tournament at Delhi.
1/27/1931Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign.
8/15/1992Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
10/3/1997Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.