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Historical Event on 8/22/1993
Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1974 | Rasulatbai, veteran classical music expert, died. |
| 7/26/1910 | Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination. |
| 8/4/1931 | Narendra Shankar Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/5/1997 | Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta. |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 5/27/1992 | M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed. |
| 3/1/1994 | Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57. |
| 2/19/1995 | National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
| 8/3/1960 | Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur. |
| 10/2/1994 | Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary. |
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