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Historical Event on 12/22/1975

Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/27/2000The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
1/5/1992Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt.
1/24/1937Gandhi announces that he will retire from politics.
8/1/1992Narasimha Rao, PM, dedicates Vizag Steel Plant to the nation.
10/25/1980Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous Urdu poet, died.
7/24/1991Industrial licensing scrapped.
6/9/1998The rupee plunges to an all-time low of Rs. 42.23/25 against the dollar.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
3/28/1999Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi's move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.