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Historical Event on 4/22/1870
Vladimir IIyich Lenin, revolutionary freedom fighter and politician, was born at Simbrisk, Volga.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/13/1917 | Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born. |
| 8/27/1859 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, was born. |
| 8/5/1604 | John Eliot, ""Apostle to Indians,"" Bible translator, baptized. |
| 6/8/1915 | Geeta Rahasya', written by Lokmanya Tilak, published. |
| 2/21/1959 | Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 12/5/1992 | Monisha, actress and winner of the 1987 'Urvasi' award for the Malayalam film 'Nakhakshathangal' died at a young age of 21 years. |
| 4/2/1942 | Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet. |
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