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Historical Event on 11/22/1928
British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1883 | Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/17/1997 | Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW. |
| 10/17/1979 | Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences. |
| 5/8/1992 | Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), passed away. |
| 7/22/1981 | India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 6/5/1966 | Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent. |
| 8/20/1909 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar. |
| 8/18/1920 | Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding. |
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