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Historical Event on 9/22/1937
The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1891 | Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 8/3/1995 | Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
| 9/27/2000 | Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics. |
| 5/29/1933 | Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away. |
| 8/1/1963 | Soviets offer India arms to block China. |
| 2/4/1994 | India elected to the executive boards of UNDP, UN Population Fund and UNICEF. |
| 10/12/1976 | Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay. |
| 11/22/1988 | Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
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