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Historical Event on 6/22/1959
Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/17/1946 | Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away. |
| 1/20/1957 | South Africa banned Indian Cargo ships to dock at their Ports. |
| 5/25/1993 | Kazakhstan offers Baikonur facilities to India. |
| 9/15/1993 | Election Commission announces polls in the former BJP-ruled states of UP, MP, HP, Rajasthan and in Delhi and Mizoram. |
| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
| 11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
| 8/22/1915 | Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born. |
| 9/16/2000 | In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
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