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Historical Event on 5/22/1917
Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
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12/8/1999 | Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999. |
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. |
3/14/1995 | Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected. |
5/9/1993 | S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away. |
12/22/1975 | Vishnupant Purshottam Bhagwat, editor, publisher and printer of monthly magzine ""Satyakatha"", d |
7/29/1993 | Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha. |
11/14/1957 | Children's Day. |
12/22/1928 | An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.' |
1/26/1915 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, was born at Nungkao village, Manipur State. |
9/30/1999 | A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term. |
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