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Historical Event on 5/22/1936
Lord Brabourne laid the foundation stone of Brabourne Stadium in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/5/1986 | Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away. |
| 11/1/1930 | S. R. Bose, cricket test umpire for one test in 1983-84, was born in Bihar. |
| 4/19/1998 | Jayalalitha, AIADMK leader, demands that all ''tainted leaders'' be dropped by the Vajpayee Government or that Sedapatti R. Muthiah be taken back. |
| 3/14/1931 | First Indian talkie film 'Alam Ara' released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay. Directed by Ardeshir Irani, the film was 11,152 ft. long and was produced by Imperial Film Co., Bombay and beared censored No. 10043 on March 11. The most remarkable thing about this film was birth of sound in Indian films, it came with a bang and quickly displaced the silent movies and brought revolutionary changes in the whole set up of the industry. |
| 10/25/2000 | The BJP Legislature Party in UP elects Rajnath Singh its leader. |
| 12/3/1956 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away. |
| 11/7/1862 | Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision. |
| 5/13/1991 | P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail. |
| 5/28/1963 | Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India). |
| 8/5/2000 | Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi. |
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