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Historical Event on 1/22/1980
Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 8/2/1959 | Little Theatre was established. |
| 9/7/1931 | Meena Mangeshkar, famous playback singer, was born. |
| 1/26/1919 | Mohammad Cazzambhoy Ibrahim Khan, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India vs West Indies 1948-49), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/26/1995 | SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA). |
| 6/30/1986 | Mizoram became the state of India. |
| 3/29/1942 | Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now. |
| 3/24/1991 | Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away. |
| 8/6/1993 | Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat. |
| 11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
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