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Historical Event on 1/22/1980

Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/3/1897Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat).
5/21/1994Sushmita Sen (Miss India), 18, was crowned as the 43rd Miss Universe.
5/21/1994Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan.
2/22/1858Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged.
9/19/1991Lok Sabha passes unanimously the Places of Worship Special Provisions Bill for maintaining the status quo of religious places as on 1947.
8/28/1994Three medical officers of the Field Ambulance unit were killed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia.
12/6/2000The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'.
11/2/1956Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.
5/23/1903Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta.
4/29/1639Delhi's Red fort construction commenced by laying the Foundation Stone by Shah Jahan. This fort was completed on May 13, 1646.