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Historical Event on 11/22/1928

British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/5/1989Dalai Lama was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize (1989).
3/25/1983Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away.
3/28/1984Bhausaheb Ranade, famous freedom fighter, passed away.
6/13/1992Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
6/15/1949Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72.
1/18/1925Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
11/5/1961Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
7/29/1994Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants.
7/11/2000Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".