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Historical Event on 10/22/1929
Air Mail Series Stamps were issued. These stamps were of denominations of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 annas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 11/18/1948 | Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna. |
| 1/24/1966 | Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board. |
| 8/22/1942 | Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died. |
| 9/18/1927 | Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce was established. |
| 7/13/1998 | India and Germany sign an agreement on promoting and protecting investment in Bonn. |
| 2/7/1864 | P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born. |
| 4/3/1857 | Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also. |
| 10/26/1999 | India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
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