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Historical Event on 1/22/1986

Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/11/1946Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.
1/5/1953Andhra University celebrated its silver jubilee.
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
10/4/1977Atal Bihari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister of India, addressed the UNO General Assembly in Hindi language.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
5/2/1996General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories.
2/27/1941Paddy Ashton, first leader of Britain's Social and Liberal Democrat Party, was born in New Delhi, India.
6/19/1997Indian flag cargo ship, M. V. Arcadia Pride, sinks in inclement weather, seven nautical miles off Colaba, Mumbai, leaving four sailors dead and 20 missing. In the rescue and search operation by the Indian Navy, nine persons were rescued.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.
11/29/1959Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.