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Historical Event on 7/22/1978
Indira Gandhi charged with criminal misconduct during 1977 campaign.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/22/1978 | Guru Angad Dev, Sikh Guru, passed away. |
| 3/3/1924 | Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 4/13/1796 | The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
| 6/4/1953 | University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru. |
| 5/27/1930 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement. |
| 6/30/1755 | Jayappa Shinde who was the son of Ronoji Shinde was murdered. |
| 1/30/1959 | Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai. |
| 7/9/1938 | Sanjeev Kumar, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
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