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Historical Event on 5/22/1772
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician and founder of Brahmo Samaj, was born at Radhanagar in Hooghly district, Bengal.
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| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 6/11/1930 | A cyclonic storm blew a train off the rails near Himmatnagar, Gujarat, killing at least one person and injuring many more. |
| 12/23/1930 | The British governor of Punjab was wounded in an assassination attempt. |
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| 9/18/1917 | Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana). |
| 1/12/1863 | Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 1/3/1912 | Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
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