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Historical Event on 7/22/1991

Pandit Basavraj Rajguru, great singer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
2/16/1955Maghnath Saha, famous scientist, passed away.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
4/27/1878Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination.
12/11/1938Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, famous Hindi litterateur and editor, passed away.
12/15/1999The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd.
2/2/1978Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, the first receipent of ""Gyanpeeth Puraskar (Award)"", and many other awards, passed away.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
11/28/1990Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector.