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Historical Event on 3/22/1957

National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was "Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1718Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain.
1/24/1958First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
7/16/1992Shankar Dayal Sharma is appointed President.
7/16/1992Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.
2/1/1930A bomb, believed to be planted by Indian nationalists, is found at the British Museum at London.
4/22/2000Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Mumbai.
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
9/29/19881988 Nobel Peace Prize for U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces.
7/22/1678Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.