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Historical Event on 3/22/1709

It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.

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3/31/1913Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk.
2/17/1698Aurangzeb fell to Jinjee fort, seat of Maratha power, after eight-year siege.
10/29/1929Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
2/7/1999Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became the second only bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi.
12/10/1984Justice Thakkar Commission appointed to enquire into the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
9/29/1997IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites.
9/4/1996Narasimha Rao questioned by CBI.
2/16/1968Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
4/14/1907P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.