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Historical Event on 2/22/1905
Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).
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| 3/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party. |
| 6/17/1903 | Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born. |
| 3/27/1898 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of Modern India, passed away at Aligarh. |
| 8/29/1994 | Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 7/24/1996 | Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs. |
| 6/8/2000 | Bomb blasts rock churches in three states (A.P, Karnataka and Goa). |
| 7/10/1996 | Budget session of Parliament begins. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 10/19/1925 | B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born. |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
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