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Historical Event on 3/22/1971
Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1916 | Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48), was born at Mamandur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/20/1968 | Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay. |
| 2/25/1938 | Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/16/1988 | L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died. |
| 7/17/1937 | Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95. |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
| 6/11/1991 | Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir. |
| 9/8/1933 | Asha Bhosle (born Asha Mangeshkar), famous playback singer, was born in Sangli, Maharashtra. |
| 2/20/1994 | Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking. |
| 5/7/1996 | Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar. |
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