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Historical Event on 1/22/1963

The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
4/14/1993The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries.
2/11/1861Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal.
11/5/1605Accession of Jahangir
5/3/1927Riots between Sikhs and Muslims in Lahore claims 14 lives and leaves 100 injured.
3/1/1997India under-19 team wins third `Test', claims three-test series 2-0 win in Matara.
7/4/1994Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died.
2/17/1931Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".
7/11/1998Indians bag a silver and a bronze at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.