22 December - India on this day25 events
Vishnupant Purshottam Bhagwat, editor, publisher and printer of monthly magzine "Satyakatha", died.
Affonso de Albuquerque wrote, "My determination now is to prevent any Moor entering Goa, to leave a sufficient force of men and ships in the place, then with another fleet visit the Red sea and Ormuz".
The Government says there is no hidden agenda behind the US lifting of curbs.
Saradamoni Devi was born in Jairambati of Hooghly district.
Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar.
Dilip Rasiklal Doshi, cricketer (India's main slow lefty post-Bedi), was born in Rajkot.
Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, accepted Brahmo religion at the hands of Ramchandra Vidyabagish.
When Britain declared war against the Germans it appealed for help from all political parties. Congress put up some conditions which in other words were the immediate transfer of power. The Viceroy promised to give due consideration to the suggestions of each party and that the dominion status would be given after the war. Congress in order to pressurize the Govt. boycotted all ministries and started a civil disobedience movement and eventually resigned. Jinnah declared 22nd Dec 1939 as "Day of Deliverance".
U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India.
A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist.
Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998.
India cricket team score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur.
An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum'.
Three Army jawans die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle.
Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
Lord Edward Allanbaro, governor general of India (1842-1844), died.
Shridhar Balkrishna Kulkarni (Pathe Bapurao), famous poet known for instant poetry and Marathi folk song writer, died.
Lok Sabha adopts the constitution amendment bills regarding Panchayati Raj and Nagarapalika Bills, and decentralisation of power to the village level.
The Patents Bill gets Rajya Sabha approval.