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Historical Event on 1/22/1993
A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 12/11/1999 | Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
| 7/1/1982 | MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children. |
| 1/16/1620 | Amarsingh I, Rajput's guhilot lineage king of Mewad, died. |
| 1/16/1620 | Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him. |
| 12/13/2000 | All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work. |
| 6/24/1908 | Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born. |
| 3/3/1906 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, was born. |
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