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Historical Event on 06/22/1555
Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne.
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| 7/12/1920 | Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 7/12/1920 | Alauddin Khilji captured Chittorhgarh after defeating Rana Bhim Singh. Before the capture, Padmini, the beautiful queen along with several hundred females, had sacrificed herself in fire (Jouhar Pratha). This whole battle was fought due to Padmini. |
| 11/8/1988 | Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 12/11/1991 | R. G. Sardesai, veteran journalist, died. |
| 7/12/1949 | Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die. |
| 8/25/1959 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China. |
| 9/18/1996 | Suresh Mehta ministry wins the confidence vote in Gujarat . |
| 11/6/1930 | First Round Table Conference held at London. |
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