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Historical Event on 5/22/1993
Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/22/1922 | Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces. |
| 4/4/1990 | MI-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35, thus becoming a dedicated Attack Helicopter unit of the IAF. |
| 6/14/1985 | M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985. |
| 1/22/1683 | Shri Samarth Ramdas passed away. |
| 2/20/1929 | K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 5/9/1981 | Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 6/30/1931 | June Thorburn, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore), was born in Kashmir, India. |
| 2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
| 7/10/1999 | The Delhi police arrest Mohammad Javed alias Babu Bhai, an accused in the Jain Hawala case. |
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