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Historical Event on 6/22/1994

Law for the betterment of women introduced.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/30/1988Raj Kapoor gets Dada Saheb Phalke award for 1988.
9/11/1956The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash.
11/23/1919Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
6/11/1930A cyclonic storm blew a train off the rails near Himmatnagar, Gujarat, killing at least one person and injuring many more.
6/11/1930Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.
11/6/1997Chief Executives of public sector banks and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, after a meeting in New Delhi, decide to grant greater administrative autonomy to select public sector banks.
2/3/1912Bardanand Chattergy, chemical expert, was born.
6/23/1993RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%.