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Historical Event on 11/22/1999
A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1996 | Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case). |
| 5/1/1996 | Guru Ramdasji died. His son Arjun Dev succeeded him and changed the offerings to the Guru into a regular tax. |
| 3/24/1968 | The second Indian-made rocket 'Menaka' successfully launched at the Thumba station. |
| 1/14/1994 | The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award). |
| 10/1/1992 | Broadcasting of Zee TV started. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 12/11/1843 | Robert Koch, famous French scientist, was born in Clausthal village, Germany. |
| 11/24/1926 | Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'. |
| 5/5/1903 | Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 6/3/1844 | Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born. |
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