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Historical Event on 3/22/1999

Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
4/9/1994C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad.
1/24/1957Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
10/2/1906Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour.
2/1/1967Victor Paramjyoti, famous Indian music director, composer and critic, passed away.
7/23/1856Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.
1/6/1664Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat.
6/25/1900Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.
9/11/1875Koyaji Jahangir Kuwanrji, famous economist, was born.