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Historical Event on 5/22/1953

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/22/1953Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab.
11/16/1992Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria.
1/11/1960Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.
9/19/1933Sunit Francis Rodrigues, former Chief Army General, was born.
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
9/1/1896Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903
11/8/1990Congress (I) extends support to Chandrasekhar to form Government, even as BJP and Left parties decline the request of President R. Venkataraman to form Government. Rajasthan BJP CM Bhairon Singh Shekhwat wins confidence motion with the help of Janata Dal rebels (116-80).
12/16/1909Lal Singh Narayan Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match), was born near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.