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Historical Event on 7/22/1678
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/7/1994 | India and Iran sign three MoU in Tehran. |
| 4/17/1923 | Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India. |
| 6/11/1984 | 574 Sikh army deserters arrested. |
| 5/3/1913 | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay. |
| 6/6/1903 | Hiralal Sen shot the first Indian Advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic. |
| 4/1/2000 | India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran. |
| 2/1/1931 | Gandhi chiefs order campaign of civil disobedience to continue. |
| 1/29/1968 | Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died. |
| 7/18/1980 | Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit. |
| 2/28/1987 | The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event). |
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