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Historical Event on 3/22/1709

It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
9/13/1996Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.
6/9/1967Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness.
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
7/1/1999K. N. Singh (70), former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, died in Lucknow.
3/21/1966Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service.
10/11/1737A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.