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Historical Event on 3/22/1957
National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was "Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/9/1746 | French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India. |
| 9/20/1944 | Rameshchandra Saxena, a one Test batsman (India vs England 1967), was born in Delhi. |
| 9/15/1912 | Rusi Karanjia, journalist and publisher, was born. |
| 9/15/1912 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
| 10/31/1876 | Cyclone hits Bengal centered near Bakarganj (now in Banlgadesh), about 200,000 die. |
| 1/14/1969 | Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/19/1996 | Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'. |
| 7/16/1917 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born. |
| 10/10/1964 | Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
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