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Historical Event on 3/22/1971

Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
4/9/1965After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced.
1/18/1970Kishan Singh at Cuttack sets record for 50 Km W.in 4.19.48.
1/18/1970The first visit of Jesuit Priest of Goa in the Court of Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri.
5/21/1994JKLF leader Mohammed Yasim Malik agrees to eschew violence provided the Centre guarantees a dialogue without pre-conditions.
9/12/1922Chandradhar Sharma Guleri passed away.
2/7/1992Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy.
9/23/1980Indira Gandhi gains power to imprison without trial.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
10/15/1972Nirmalkumar Bose, great Indian human scientist, died.