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Historical Event on 05/22/1545
Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).

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8/1/1953	Bombay Government decides to abolish ''jagirs'' in merged areas.
9/7/1998	Swami Ranganathananda is elected the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order.
12/10/1997	Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
2/5/1992	D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya.
7/1/1952	Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
1/23/1975	Omeo Kumar Das, one of the great patriots of Assam, passed away at the age of 81. He selflessly worked for the tea plantation workers and made efforts to get them better living standards. He translated Gandhiji's autobiography ""My Experiments with Truth"" in Assamese language.
2/24/1936	Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away.
3/31/1993	J.N. Dixit, Foreign Secretary, visits Myanmar and signs agreements on trade, control of drug trafficking and separatist movements along the borders.
6/22/1982	19 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
4/8/1923	Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.

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