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Historical Event on 3/22/1947
India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1988 | INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers. |
| 10/30/1994 | Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died. |
| 3/24/1995 | Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 10/18/1968 | Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur. |
| 4/1/1992 | The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched. |
| 4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
| 1/12/1924 | Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune. |
| 7/18/1996 | Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee. |
| 7/1/1949 | M. Venkaiah Rangaiah Naidu was born in Chavatapalem, Distt. Nellore (Andhra Pradesh). |
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