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Historical Event on 8/22/2000

Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/8/1958Lord Canning declared that since peace was established, it is better known as end of Indian Mutiny, 1857.
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
5/27/1996A. B. Vajpayee, PM, seeks vote of confidence in his 12-day old govt.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.
12/12/1925Dattatreya Gajanan Phadkar alias ""Dattu"" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowler all-rounder for India), Kolhapur, Maharastra, was born.
12/5/1992V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.
6/6/1903Hiralal Sen shot the first Indian Advertisment sequences for Jabakusum (hair tonic) and Edward's Tonic.
6/6/1903Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi.
5/5/1903Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India.