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Historical Event on 1/22/1997

Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, former Union Ministers Ajit Singh, Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and five others chargesheeted by CBI in Rs. 3.5 crore Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs bribery case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1951Taraporewala Aquarium was inaugurated at Mumbai by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
2/20/1999Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore.
9/8/1911Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh.
2/14/1891Stephen Smith, greatest pioneer of air borne mail, was born at Strawberry Hill, Shillong, Assam.
12/4/1888Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born.
1/30/1996Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard.
1/12/1990Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
8/25/1981Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress.