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Historical Event on 3/22/1902

Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1998Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.
10/31/1920Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay.
4/24/1932450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.
7/5/1995Tarapur nuclear station controls the leakage and soil contamination within the natural background radiation levels.
10/31/2000Chhattisgarh, the 26th State of Indian Union, comes into existence with the swearing in of its Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahay and Chief Minister Ajit Jogi at a glittering function at Raipur.
5/14/1956Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
12/15/1951Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched.
8/9/1971Vinodnand Jha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, died.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.