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Historical Event on 1/22/1963
The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/12/1885 | Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born. |
| 2/23/1946 | Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns. |
| 7/10/1924 | Johannes B van Heutsz, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1904-09), died at the age of 73. |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 1/5/1994 | Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada). |
| 7/20/1898 | Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat. |
| 7/21/1993 | Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal. |
| 7/21/1993 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 9/10/1966 | Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states. |
| 1/21/1981 | Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, passed away. |
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