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Historical Event on 1/22/1998

Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1975West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
5/3/1969Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi.
7/25/1987Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President.
7/18/1987Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet.
3/29/1992The expert committee recomends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of Bihar.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
3/26/1996The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.
7/6/1787Robert founded Indian Botanic Garden near Calcutta by Kyd on 273 acres of land.
5/1/1897Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission.