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Historical Event on 11/22/1989
Rajindernath, great Indian wicketkeeper 1 Test and 0 runs 0 ct, 4 stp, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/21/1969 | First India built electronic digital computer commissioned. |
4/3/1670 | Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, passed away during the battle of Singhgad fort. |
1/23/1993 | British PM John Major arrives in India on an official visit. |
11/30/2000 | CBI files fresh cases against JMM MPs Shibu Soren, Simon Marandi and Suraj Mandal on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. |
10/21/1999 | Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha. |
6/3/1930 | George John Fernandes, social reformer and politician, was born in Mangalore (Karnataka). |
8/22/1993 | The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu. |
2/24/1922 | Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab. |
8/10/1855 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born. |
10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
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