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Historical Event on 4/22/1942

Galagnath (Vyanktesh Tirko Kulkarni), famous Kannad novelist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/2000At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
11/12/1930First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain.
2/5/1931Krishna Film Co., Bombay produced a 7,659 feet long 'Krishnatone Talkie Programme No. 1, which was released quite before the release of 'Alam Ara,' first talkie film of India. The Krishnatone Programme was censored at C.C. No. 9906 on February 5 and the programme contained the following: (1) Arabic Song (2) Indian Orchestra No.1 (3) Indian Orchestra No.2 (4) Indian Orchestra No.3 (5) Jal Tarang Solo (6) Hindi Song No. 1 (7) Hindi Song No.2 (8) Hindi Song No. 3 (9) Bengali Song (10) Garba No. 1 (11) Garba No. 2 (12) Gujarati Comic Song (13) Hindi Chorus Song No. 1 (14) Hindi Chorus Song No. 2 (15) Dilruba Solo (16) Violin Solo (17) Goanese Song.
9/6/1905Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
1/16/1985Balram Jakhar elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
12/27/1987Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum .
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.