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Historical Event on 2/22/1905
Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/5/1991 | Sarkaria report accepted. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/6/1947 | Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees. |
| 1/1/1877 | Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 12/6/1732 | Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK. |
| 10/17/1979 | Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 3/18/1991 | West Bengal opts for assembly poll. |
| 11/7/1995 | Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50. |
| 4/22/1812 | Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born. |
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