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Historical Event on 1/22/1980
Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/3/1959 | Sadhvi Uma GulabSingh Bharti was born in Dunda, Distt. Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh). |
| 6/15/1907 | Narayan Ganesh Goray, freedom fighter and socialist, was born at Hindala (Maharashtra). |
| 10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
| 8/6/1992 | A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam. |
| 1/21/1910 | Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born. |
| 10/6/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
| 5/12/1999 | Arunachal Pradesh Governor refuses to quit. |
| 9/11/1985 | Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India. |
| 12/24/2000 | The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR. |
| 12/22/1940 | Manvendranath Rai established the Radical Democratic Party. |
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