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Historical Event on 6/22/1897
The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1845 | First Shipping Company of India started. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 9/15/1992 | Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked. |
| 4/19/1950 | Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet. |
| 10/23/1996 | Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. |
| 10/9/1949 | The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General. |
| 1/19/1976 | C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
| 1/19/1976 | Babur declared battle against Rana Sangram Singh. |
| 1/12/1992 | Punjab election set for February 19. |
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