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Historical Event on 2/22/1996

Indian police charge 14 more politicians in corruption scandal that has already led to resignations from the Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's govt.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/1708British East India Company and New East India company merged.
9/24/1995Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University.
7/17/1948Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service.
3/12/1911Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born.
9/29/1991Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of 'Agra Gharana', passed away.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
3/14/1998Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri.
4/26/1895Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born.
3/26/1997Andhra Pradesh Assembly passes a Bill to amend the Prohibition Act, ending the state's 2-year experiment with total prohibition.
5/11/1985Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.