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Historical Event on 7/22/1997
Govt. issues notification saying that Prasar Bharati Act, 1990 would come into force from Sept. 15.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 10/31/1895 | Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, cricketer (India's 1st Test capt), born at Nagpur. |
| 8/2/1919 | Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born. |
| 3/22/1902 | Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph. |
| 12/11/1999 | Dr. M. L. Madhu, poet and translator, wins the Pushkin Gold Medal award. |
| 12/28/1951 | Recognition to Libya by India accorded. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 6/24/1946 | Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi. |
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