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Historical Event on 5/22/1996

Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/16/1996Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence.
8/15/1998Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends.
1/12/2000T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
2/28/1900Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born.
9/4/1983INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully.
9/4/1983Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
4/11/199710-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining.
1/14/1758Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them.
4/8/1919Gandhiji arrested on way to Delhi for refusal to comply with order not to enter Punjab; escorted back to Bombay; outbreaks of violence in several towns.