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Historical Event on 2/22/1997
India, Turkmenistan and Iran sign transit agreement.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1974 | B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 15-08-1974. |
| 4/3/1991 | UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls . |
| 3/17/1863 | Sayajirao Gaekwad of Baroda was born. |
| 11/12/1880 | Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra). |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 12/16/1971 | Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan. |
| 11/30/1988 | Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed. |
| 4/11/1856 | Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born. |
| 1/27/2000 | K.R. Narayanan, President, opposes any tinkering with the Constitution. |
| 11/10/1968 | Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati. |
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