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Historical Event on 1/22/1965
Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/24/1975 | Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 1/11/1613 | Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth. |
| 1/31/1969 | Saint Meherbaba passed away. |
| 7/26/1975 | Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations. |
| 12/28/1996 | India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 8/13/1960 | Marmik' weekly magzine published. |
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