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Historical Event on 1/22/1965

Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
10/11/1988Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President.
3/20/1977General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.
10/27/1987Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.
12/23/1989V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990.
5/12/1998Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
7/6/1998Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja.
2/28/1998The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory.
2/28/1998Mughal conqueror Babur Shah (1483-1530) defeats Ibrahim Lodi II, the Lodi Sultan of Delhi, and captures Delhi and the Koh-i-noor diamond, in the First Battle of Panipat. He founded the Mughal dynasty in India (1526-1761), consolidated by his grandson Akbar.