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Historical Event on 7/22/1998
24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/2/1997 | Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip. |
11/11/1872 | Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was b |
5/17/1997 | Two workers belonging to Mamsapuram near Srivilliputtur ''burnt alive'' at neighbouring Edayankulam by its residents who took them hostage. |
2/11/1977 | B.D.Jathi became the second acting President of India. |
6/18/1974 | Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died. |
12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
8/12/1919 | Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, the father of Indian space technology and scientist, was born at Ahmedabad. |
5/30/1887 | The 7th Battalion of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment was raised as 37 DOGRAS by Lt. Col V. Rivas at Sialkot. |
1/28/1992 | Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away. |
5/17/2000 | The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place. |
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