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Historical Event on 12/22/1995
A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 5/29/1953 | Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. |
| 8/3/1886 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi. |
| 10/1/1887 | Pandit Hridaynath Ajudhianath Kunzru, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
| 8/1/1882 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.). |
| 1/25/1957 | Kashmir becomes Indian state. |
| 12/6/1931 | Bengal Congress to boycott British goods. |
| 5/14/1923 | Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer, passed away. |
| 7/8/1972 | Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta. |
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