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Historical Event on 2/22/1996

Madanlal Khurana, Delhi CM, resigns (Hawala scandal).

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/21/1959Press Club of India was founded in New Delhi.
5/7/1996Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar.
2/10/1691Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.
7/14/1854Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born.
2/28/1900Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born.
6/18/1978The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened.
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
1/1/1967Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots.
4/10/1919Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her.