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Historical Event on 5/22/1989

IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1976Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting.
8/2/1980Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.
3/19/1973Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.
9/22/2000Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case.
12/28/1688Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites).
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
4/6/1992Nagpur edition of Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' was started.
3/25/1905Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born.
1/18/1998Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India.
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.