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Historical Event on 4/22/2000
Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/2000 | Firuz Shah captured the throne of Delhi and Sultan Jalal'ud-din Khalji called himself. |
| 3/25/1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 6/24/1763 | Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King. |
| 3/31/1959 | Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India. |
| 3/1/1971 | Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc. |
| 2/10/1979 | Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 9/29/1999 | Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting. |
| 3/3/1943 | Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 11/7/1990 | National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government. |
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