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Historical Event on 8/22/1979

Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government.

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3/20/1921Dr. P. C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra, was born.
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
7/2/1961Prof M S Thacker, DG-CSIR, laid the foundation stone for the wind tunnel complex.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
1/24/1951Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
10/24/1827Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born
5/14/1993Bombay High Court upholds Goa C.M. Ravi Naik's disqualification by speaker under anti-defection bill.