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Historical Event on 9/22/1996

Passport seekers are given an option of 10 years (Rs. 300) or 20 years (Rs. 600) period.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/20/1973Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur.
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
11/29/1952First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay.
8/12/1952Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament.
8/10/1993Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10.
6/10/1908Mary Clubwala Jadhav, politician and social worker, was born.
12/29/1975D.K. Barooah elected Congress President.
7/30/1987India says it will revive the 'Agni' IRBM programe.
2/18/1996Kenya's first full One Day International Cricket match at Cricket World Cup vs India. Tendulkar scored 127* and India won over Kenya.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".