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Historical Event on 6/22/1994

L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/6/1905Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born.
6/5/1997Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.
11/16/1992Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria.
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
12/1/1911Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
11/8/1947Junagadh accedes to India. Addresses A.I.C.C.
5/21/1984Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay.
9/1/1915Rajindersingh Bedi, Urdu story writer and Hindi film story writer, was born.
11/16/1990Allahabad High Court stays UP Government's decision to increase reservation quota for Backward Classes.