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Historical Event on 12/22/1994

Sunil Gavaskar takes oath of office as the Sheriff of Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/6/1997Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title.
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
2/25/2000Justice M. Srinivasan (63), Supreme Court Judge at the Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, died after prolonged illness.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
11/29/1996Shaleem I. Shervani, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and President, ICMR Governing Body, was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony of the year long celebrations of the 85th year of ICMR at New Delhi. He released a special issue of the ICMR Bulletin on this occasion and presented momentos to the former Additional Directors-General and Directors-General of the ICMR.
11/3/1999Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
12/11/1908New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.'
7/24/1932Madhukar Devram Toradmal, famous actor and playwright, was born.
12/10/1918Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.