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Historical Event on 3/22/1947

India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1973E.V.Ramasami, founder of DMK party, prominent leader, great social worker and revolutionary freedom fighter, died at the age of 94.
5/13/1998World Bank cancels India donors meet.
7/13/1995Devyani Chaubal, film journalist, passed away.
12/7/1902Janardhan Gyanoba Navle, cricketer, India's first Test wicket-keeper, was born at Fulgaon, Maharashtra. He played against England at Lord's in 1932.
4/26/1999India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
10/1/1941No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar.
1/12/1918C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
11/26/1949Constitution of India was adopted
3/21/1997Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura.