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Historical Event on 8/22/1979
Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/25/1998 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99. |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
| 6/9/1659 | Dara Shikoh was handed over to Aurangzeb's army by Jiwan Khan, a Baluchi whose life was saved by Dara. |
| 10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
| 3/20/1782 | Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born. |
| 4/2/1987 | Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards. |
| 12/25/1943 | Japanese bombers raid Chittagong. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 4/22/1930 | Civil Disobedience at Dandi, 6th April 1930 and Civil Disobedience at Bombay, 7th April 1930, both documentary films produced by Krishna Film Co., Bombay, were prohibited by Censor Board on April 22, on the grounds that they were calculated to foster resistance to Government and to promote a breach of Law and Order. |
| 9/14/1923 | Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born. |
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