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Historical Event on 4/22/1915
Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1998 | Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai Open. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 4/19/1996 | AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989. |
| 9/5/1659 | Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 6/17/1965 | Motilal, famous actor, died. |
| 1/31/1960 | Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s. |
| 11/9/1998 | India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi. |
| 9/17/1956 | Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established. |
| 2/21/1991 | Opposition boycotts the President's address as a protest against the dismissal of Tamil Nadu government. |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
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