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Historical Event on 7/22/1998

24-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1993Government assures Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member election commission.
8/11/1961Dadra and Nagar Haweli declared as Union Territory States.
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.
12/11/1931Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", guru of the rich, was born.
1/19/1997Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
6/21/1814Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died.
11/8/1997India lifts Asia Cup tennis title in Delhi.
5/10/1901Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"".
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.