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Historical Event on 1/22/1998
Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1879 | Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department. |
| 1/19/1892 | Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born. |
| 8/4/1979 | Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay. |
| 5/1/1897 | Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission. |
| 1/18/1997 | India's first electric car 'Reva' launched in Bangalore. |
| 6/14/1905 | Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer, was born. |
| 12/25/1954 | Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died. |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 4/24/1929 | First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off. |
| 7/5/1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music. |
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