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Historical Event on 8/22/1979
Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1686 | Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 10/5/1957 | Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City. |
| 1/15/1996 | Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996. |
| 5/15/1992 | Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 5/31/1998 | B. R. Rawat, an Indian diplomat, is assaulted by a Pakistani private security guard in Islamabad. |
| 10/11/1993 | CBI files chargesheet against stock-broker Hiten Dalal and 3 others for defrauding Canbank Mutual Fund over Rs.102 crore. |
| 12/17/1830 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died. |
| 12/10/1948 | Human Rights Day. |
| 4/18/1904 | Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born. |
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