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Historical Event on 12/22/1998

The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1998The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
9/4/1990An all-party meeting refuses to endorse the decision to implement Mandal Commission Report according to which 27\% jobs are reserved for backward communities.
7/21/1994The Supreme Court declares that SC/ST will lose status on migration to other states.
1/10/199526th International Film Festival of India opens at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.
6/19/1966Shiv Sena was established.
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
10/15/1921Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P.