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Historical Event on 7/22/1970
Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV), College of Agriculture, Palampur was transferred to Himachal Pradesh University as part of its Agricultural Complex.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1928 | Arun Kumar Seal, educationist, was born at Vishnupur. |
| 1/2/1990 | Election panel made one member body again; Election Commissioners S. S. Dhanoa and V. S. Seigell removed. |
| 4/20/1971 | Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 5/5/1903 | Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 1/9/1996 | PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function. |
| 3/3/1931 | Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops. |
| 12/20/1904 | Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 7/14/1998 | India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights. |
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