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Historical Event on 8/22/1942
Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/3/1901 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam. |
| 9/17/1799 | Parshuram Bhau Patwardhan, an able leader and diplomat of Madhavrao Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 11/18/1997 | School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children. |
| 10/10/1906 | Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 6/2/1993 | Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured. |
| 8/19/1757 | The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company. |
| 12/27/1976 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members who laid down their lives to repulsed several waves of Japanese attacks. Advance Base Depot is shifted to Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 April 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 11/14/1993 | Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP. |
| 10/2/1994 | Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary. |
| 7/18/1993 | Girilal Jain, 71, The Times of India editor, died. |
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