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Historical Event on 4/22/1996

National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1998Prominent Indian Government and private entities are targeted in the Clinton Administration Entities List. American Companies are barred from trading with the listed companies.
7/2/1991Nanankal Krishna Pillai, famous Malyalam poet, died.
2/3/1977Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering.
5/27/1906Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day.
5/7/1889Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, freedom fighter, journalist and Padmabhushan awardee, was born.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
5/23/1990Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.
3/25/1994Buta Singh exonerated by the Akal Takht after 9 years.
3/17/1988First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space.
8/28/1997Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.