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Historical Event on 6/22/1995

India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1995Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
5/13/1996M. Karunanidhi (DMK) sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM.
3/29/1914Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh.
1/1/1880Money order system was introduced.
6/7/1996Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole.
10/28/1946Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar.
7/12/200067 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
11/5/1927Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi.