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Historical Event on 3/22/1933

M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1991Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'.
6/5/1981Gopal Saini at Tokyo sets record for 3000m ST. in 8,30.88.
1/14/1964Bapu Nadkarni bowled 32-27-5-0 vs England, 21 maiden overs in a row.
5/6/1971D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77).
1/5/1968Government of India accepts the administrative reforms commission's recommendation to appoint a Lok Pal.
5/18/1988The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.
9/15/1861Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family.
10/19/1967Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
12/7/1997Leander Paes awarded 'The Sportstar' award.