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Historical Event on 9/22/1789

Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1954Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
12/10/1952World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
4/1/1936Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar.
12/25/1974Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
9/20/1921Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi.
9/17/1885Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born.
5/4/1993Santosh Yadav became the first Indian woman to conquer the Everest twice.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.