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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 |
| 1/22/1998 | Saint Namdev passed away. |
| 7/25/1997 | Laloo Yadav resigns as Bihar Chief Minister after CBI-designated court issues an arrest warrant against him in fodder scam case. His wife, Rabri Devi, is sworn in as his successor. She becomes first woman Chief Minister of the State. |
| 8/19/1907 | Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born. |
| 7/4/1995 | Rajan Pillai, business tycoon and biscuit king of India, who was convicted by a Singapore court for multi-million dollar fraud, was arrested in New Delhi. |
| 9/1/1893 | Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died. |
| 12/24/1988 | Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 10/5/1949 | A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died. |
| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 8/29/1956 | India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid. |
| 7/13/1907 | Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born. |
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