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Historical Event on 8/22/1933
Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1994 | Governor Bhanu Prakash Singh dismisses Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa. |
| 8/6/1997 | Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void. |
| 2/20/1847 | Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established. |
| 9/18/1993 | Asit Sen, famous comedy actor and character artist, died. |
| 11/1/2000 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi. |
| 8/29/1975 | Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away. |
| 3/15/1908 | Police shoot four people in rioting. |
| 9/21/1895 | Annapurnanand, great writer, was born. |
| 5/21/1990 | Moelvi Muhammad Farouk, great Indian spiritual leader, was murdered. |
| 1/6/1992 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG. |
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