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Historical Event on 1/22/1903
Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/7/1996 | Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole. |
| 8/18/1969 | Humayun Kabir, great politician, died. |
| 5/27/1964 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister and architect of modern India, passed away at the age of 74. |
| 11/11/1979 | President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 12/8/1875 | Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born. |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 3/12/1988 | After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. |
| 10/28/1928 | M.G.K. Menon, Physics expert, was born. |
| 10/15/1921 | Gul Muhammad, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman), was born in Lahore. |
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