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Historical Event on 2/22/1990
1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland. NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/1988 | 500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
| 5/6/1680 | Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned. |
| 9/9/1942 | Shirish Kumar, martyr, died. |
| 1/25/1971 | Himachal Pradesh High Court was established at Shimla for Himachal Pradesh Territory. |
| 1/5/1955 | Kumari Mamata Promileswar Banerjee was born in Calcutta (West Bengal). |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 10/2/1911 | Ambat Menon, great educationist, was born at Chittore, Kerala . |
| 11/8/1960 | Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan. |
| 11/8/1960 | Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
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