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22 March - India on this day35 events

1969

The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.

#foundation#industries22-March-1969
1793

Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.

#money#general22-March-1793
1963

World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.

#money#transport22-March-1963
1997

Deshabhimani daily, official organ of CPI (M), launches its 5th edition from Kottayam, Kerala.

#publication22-March-1997
1907

Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. "Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it," said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.

#quote#freedom fighter#politics22-March-1907
1885

Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.

#birth22-March-1885
1893

Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born.

#birth22-March-1893
1906

Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born.

#birth22-March-1906
1914

M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura.

#birth22-March-1914
1915

Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born.

#birth22-March-1915
1933

M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.

#birth#sports22-March-1933
1961

Jual Teria Dilga Oram was born in Kendudihi, Distt. Sundargarh (Orissa).

#birth22-March-1961
1977

Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum.

#freedom fighter22-March-1977
1964

200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.

#religion#death22-March-1964
1996

Golden Temple renamed Harmandir Sahib (its original name meaning 'abode of God').

#religion22-March-1996
1709

It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.

#literature22-March-1709
1739

Nadir Shah entered Delhi. He gave the signal to one of his soldiers from Sunheri mosque.

#general22-March-1739
1902

Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.

#general#command22-March-1902
1932

Indian Muslims break with Great Britain.

#general22-March-1932
1938

IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.

#general22-March-1938
1947

India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.

#general22-March-1947
1957

National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was ""Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.

#general22-March-1957
1999

57 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.

#general22-March-1999
2000

INSAT-3B launched.

#science22-March-2000
2000

India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.

#science22-March-2000
1999

Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.

#sports22-March-1999
1949

SSC Examination system started.

#education22-March-1949
1971

Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.

#death22-March-1971
1942

Both Congress and Muslim League refused Cripps Mission offer. Congress adopts Quit India Resolution. Cripps Commission came to India which was preceded by Sir Stephard Crips to find out a political formula for transfer of power to Indians.

#politics22-March-1942
1977

Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Pime Minister of India.

#politics#women22-March-1977
1977

Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha.

#politics22-March-1977
1991

Chautala sworn in as Haryana CM.

#politics22-March-1991
1991

President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.

#politics22-March-1991
1993

The Lok Sabha passes the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 1993 and the Dentists (Amendment) Bill, 1993.

#politics22-March-1993
2000

P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry.

#politics22-March-2000