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Historical Event on 10/22/1997
Indian veterans take winning 3-0 lead against Pakistan in the five-match cricket series.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1994 | CIA connection to CN Annadurai alleged in book on Seshan, Jayalalitha obtains stay. |
| 12/25/1876 | Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born. |
| 11/24/1999 | India finish with 10 gold, eight silver and seven bronze medals in the Commonwealth shooting championship which ended in Auckland. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 11/2/1971 | Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives. |
| 12/4/1997 | Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next. |
| 1/19/1855 | G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
| 12/15/1965 | Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
| 12/11/1999 | Dr. M. L. Madhu, poet and translator, wins the Pushkin Gold Medal award. |
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