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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
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24 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with a share captial in India. |
| 9/22/1687 |
Aurangzeb ended Kutubshah kingdom. |
| 9/22/1789 |
Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department. |
| 9/22/1869 |
Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/22/1891 |
Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
| 9/22/1902 |
Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, (right-hand batsman who batted in India's first two Tests), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/22/1931 |
Gandhi meets Charlie Chaplin in London. |
| 9/22/1937 |
The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands. |
| 9/22/1952 |
Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died. |
| 9/22/1970 |
Bandopadhyay Shardendu, modern Bengali poet, died. |
| 9/22/1979 |
Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
| 9/22/1979 |
Maulana Abdul Ali Moudoodi aka Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti, founder leader of the Jamait- E- Islam, died in USA, he had taken pakistani citizenship. |
| 9/22/1986 |
India vs Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie. |
| 9/22/1988 |
PM announces Government's decision to drop Defamation Bill. |
| 9/22/1991 |
Durga Khote, film actress and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 86 years. |
| 9/22/1992 |
Harshad Mehta released after 110 days in jail. |
| 9/22/1992 |
Indo-British Extradition Treaty signed in London. |
| 9/22/1994 |
G. N. Joshi, famous singer, died. |
| 9/22/1996 |
Passport seekers are given an option of 10 years (Rs. 300) or 20 years (Rs. 600) period. |
| 9/22/1999 |
Former Test all-rounder Chandu Borde was re-appointed chairman of National Selection Committee on Day two of the BCCI AGM in Jaipur. |
| 9/22/1999 |
India asks Pakistan to prevent the reported attempt by the JKLF to cross the Line of Control (LOC) on October 4. |
| 9/22/2000 |
Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 9/9/1898 | Explosive Department of India was established at Nagpur. This is presently under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 12/23/1959 | Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78. |
| 10/3/1999 | India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 10/16/1959 | National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi. |
| 6/13/1879 | Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 1/21/1970 | Harivinayak Pataskar, former Central Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh, passed away. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
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