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Historical Event on 1/22/1945

The Indian 7th Division captures Tilin at Burma.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/26/1885Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.
10/6/1999The DMK front is set to win a majority of LS seats in Tamil Nadu.
12/4/1888Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born.
7/12/1996Bail granted to Harshad Mehta, prime accused in the securities scam.
11/25/1879Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement.
4/5/1950Spurred by recent clashes in East and West Bengal between Muslims and Hindus, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Pakistani couterpart Ali Khan today reached agreement on a ""Bill of Rights for Minorities"". This bill included a provision for ""drumhead justice,"" or summary justice to persons convicted of violating minority rights.
9/30/1961Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay.
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.
10/15/1996Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.
10/15/1996Radiya Sultan, first lady ruler of Delhi throne, passed away in a battle.