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Historical Event on 4/22/1812
Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1910 | Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/15/1977 | Rashid Ahmed Siddiqui, modern Urdu writer, passed away. |
| 12/3/1984 | 3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India. |
| 8/26/1947 | Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion. |
| 4/15/1998 | Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna. |
| 6/18/1991 | Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority. |
| 12/1/1994 | Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 5/2/1921 | Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 7/27/1998 | 7 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 2/27/1987 | UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar recieved the Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding. |
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