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Historical Event on 3/22/1999
57 prisoners in Indian and Pakistan jails are repatriated to their respective motherlands at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost on the border in Amristar district.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 6/19/1966 | Shiv Sena was established. |
| 6/19/1966 | Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312. |
| 4/18/1931 | Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India. |
| 3/11/1795 | Battle at Kurdla India, Mahratten beat Mughals. |
| 12/7/1825 | First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta. |
| 8/7/1985 | Geet Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia. |
| 1/19/1855 | G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born. |
| 5/1/1927 | Dr. Namwar Singh was born. |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
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