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Historical Event on 5/22/1996

11th Lok Sabha's first session begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
10/20/1997All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar.
8/25/1997Konkan Railway line in Goa, except for a short stretch between Pernem and Maharashtra border, becomes operational.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
12/9/1658Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India.
9/3/1995Ram Jethmalani (lawyer and MP) launches a new party, Bharatiya Lok Panchayat, to rid the country of its evils.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
7/27/1993Rao government defeats the no-confidence motion by 265-251 votes. Seven of the JD (A) vote with government as JD (A) and AIADMK decide to vote for no-confidence motion.
11/19/2000Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.