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Historical Event on 6/22/1995
India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1885 | Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt). |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
| 1/31/1960 | Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 3/16/1832 | Sarfoji Bhosle, King of Tanjawar, passed away. |
| 10/31/1876 | Cyclone hits Bengal centered near Bakarganj (now in Banlgadesh), about 200,000 die. |
| 2/24/1946 | Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police. |
| 9/1/1668 | Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England. |
| 9/25/1985 | Akali Dal wins Punjab state elections. |
| 4/12/1917 | Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar. |
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