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Historical Event on 7/22/1944

Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.

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7/1/1991Rupee devalued by 8.5\%.
8/29/1612Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese.
10/6/1935Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India.
4/15/1658Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb's advance towards Agra.
5/30/1895Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, great historian in Goa, was born.
1/1/1880Money order system was introduced.
2/17/1994Gopikrishna, internationaly famed 'Kathtak' exponent, died at the age of 61 years.
3/24/1987First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching.
9/28/1993Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives.
2/1/1942No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers.