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Historical Event on 3/22/1997

Deshabhimani daily, official organ of CPI (M), launches its 5th edition from Kottayam, Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1997Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala.
5/10/1905Pankaj Malik, music director, was born.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
8/25/1998Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe.
1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.
2/25/1909Gandhiji arrested at Volksrust; sentenced to 3 months.
6/4/1993L K Advani unanimously elected President of BJP.
4/24/1966Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad.
3/31/1871Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born.