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Historical Event on 7/22/1918
During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
12/1/1900 | Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu. |
10/15/1946 | Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India. |
12/20/1948 | Ladha Ramji, brother of Amar Singh and played his only Test vs Eng in 1933-34, died at Rajkot. |
11/24/1948 | Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
12/24/1973 | E.V.Ramasami, founder of DMK party, prominent leader, great social worker and revolutionary freedom fighter, died at the age of 94. |
2/13/1922 | The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence. |
7/11/1924 | Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi. |
2/13/1997 | Deve Gowda, PM, dedicates the Rs. 3200-crore 480 MW Uri hydel project in north Kashmir to the nation. |
4/2/1970 | Meghalaya, an autonomous hilly state, was established after dividing the hilly areas of Assam. |
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