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Historical Event on 8/22/1979
Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/13/1922 | Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born. |
| 3/19/1936 | Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born. |
| 2/28/1918 | Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 5/11/1985 | Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India. |
| 6/24/1990 | Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'. |
| 12/26/1989 | The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Parliament. |
| 3/23/1910 | Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal Lohia also known as ""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"", freedom fighter and socialist leader, was born at Akbarpur, district Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. He had founded Praja Socialist Party in 1952. |
| 3/4/1919 | Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 9/9/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan. |
| 12/10/1967 | Earthquake hit Koyna Nagar. |
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