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Historical Event on 6/22/1959

Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/2/1979Operation (Milk) Flood-II launched.
9/27/2000Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
7/23/1976Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72.
2/3/1984Ravindra Mhatre, great Indian diplomat who was kidnapped in England, was murdered.
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
4/3/1956Nehru announces that troops have been sent to control Naga tribal people in the Burmese border area, who are asking for a separate state.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
3/12/1997aspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
2/20/1968Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay.