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Historical Event on 1/22/1986
Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/9/1874 | First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai. |
| 3/26/1989 | Eighth Antarctica Expedition returns after erecting India's second permanent manned station 'Maitri'. |
| 3/26/1989 | Saint Kabir was born. |
| 1/21/2000 | The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president. |
| 10/19/1974 | T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 12/19/1857 | The trial on Raja Nahar Singh, who was arrested and then was prisioned at Metcalfe House, began on Saturday at 1100 hrs at Delhi. |
| 5/6/1922 | Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48. |
| 5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
| 5/6/1952 | Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 12/16/1921 | Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river. |
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