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Historical Event on 5/22/1989

IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/20/1998A. B. Bardhan is re-elected CPI general secretary.
10/30/1996Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay.
9/12/1931Triloki Nath Madan, educationist and journalist, was born at Srinagar, Kashmir.
9/24/1997I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister, formally stated India's claim to permanent membership of Security Council at the U.N. General Assembly meeting.
10/19/1905Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London.
8/15/1995P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
2/17/1976Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.
12/5/2000Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.