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Historical Event on 6/22/1982

19 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1982Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
8/2/1958Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad.
10/11/1988Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President.
2/10/1859General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.
7/17/1992Lok Sabha rejects no-trust motion.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
8/14/1900S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born.
4/9/1783Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India.