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Historical Event on 1/22/1986
Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/27/1889 | Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji. |
| 6/9/1986 | First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai. |
| 11/8/2000 | Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen. |
| 1/16/1996 | Supreme Court says trial courts should hold trial of rape cases in camera. |
| 7/26/1874 | Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born. |
| 3/25/1928 | S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born. |
| 7/20/1969 | Varahagiri Venkatagiri retired from the post of President. |
| 10/31/1843 | Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born. |
| 1/6/1972 | America declared Naval Drill in the Indian Ocean. |
| 8/15/2000 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"". |
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