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Historical Event on 8/22/1933
Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 10/24/1934 | Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay. |
| 11/29/1989 | Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party |
| 11/29/1989 | Taimurlang passed away. |
| 9/23/1911 | Rappal Sangmeshwar Krishnan, noted physics expert of India, was born. |
| 8/20/1921 | The Mopla revolt, one of the important uprisings of India, was started at Kerala. |
| 8/20/1921 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 6/14/1997 | India expresses regret over ""inadvertent intrusion"" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory. |
| 6/14/1997 | Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa under Albuquerque, the then Governor, to serve as capital of their Asian maritime empire beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans. |
| 10/9/1947 | P. C. Joshi, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI), appealed to all LEFT parties to rally around Nehru to fight for peace. |
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