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Historical Event on 1/22/1998

Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past.
9/15/1947Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer.
7/17/200055 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
10/30/1991Norberto Carvalho, vetern freedom fighter of Goa freedom fight, passed away.
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
7/11/1832British Parliament finally rejected to remove the appeal of Hindus puritans against Sutee abolition, as demanded by tradional orthodox Indians.
2/8/1907Madhavravji Golwalkar, sarsanghchalak of 'Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh' (RSS), was born.
3/27/1977N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.
7/1/1958Vishnu Sahay was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 10-11-1960.