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Historical Event on 8/22/1984
R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
| 3/20/1952 | Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born. |
| 6/26/1982 | First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay). |
| 11/28/1704 | Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born. |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
| 10/18/1997 | Prince Philip switches on the internet version of Malayala Manorama and The Week at Kochi. |
| 8/13/1953 | Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc. |
| 4/24/1965 | Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal. |
| 7/15/1903 | Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu. |
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