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Historical Event on 2/22/1990
1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland. NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/8/1966 | Rameshwari Nehru, freedom fighter and social worker, died at 80 years in New Delhi. She founded ""Stree-Darpan"" Magazine in 1909 and was president of ""Indian Women Association"". She had received Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 for her humanitarian services for upliftment of the down |
| 3/3/1978 | Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started. |
| 8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
| 12/29/1983 | Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 2/20/1847 | Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established. |
| 3/25/1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 12/20/1920 | Justice Ali Sayyed Murtuza Fazal was born. |
| 1/2/1754 | Robert Clive again attacked and annexed Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah. |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
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