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Historical Event on 6/22/1898

The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1854Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born.
6/20/1939Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer - pace bowler for India in the 60s, was born in Bombay
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
2/19/1992An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.
4/28/1848Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
1/2/1953Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India.
5/29/1982Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.