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Historical Event on 6/22/1948

Emperor of India title was deleted from His Majesty the King of United Kingdom's titles.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1989Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away.
12/25/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, launches a Rs.60,000 crore ''Gram Sadak Yojana'' for linking all villages and the ""Antyodaya Anna Scheme'' for providing cheap foodgrains under the TPDS.
7/16/1992Shankar Dayal Sharma is appointed President.
7/5/1999Two buses, which were inaugurated from Dhaka, arrive in Calcutta.
9/14/1949Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate.
12/10/1857Veer Narayan Singh organised a small group and had an encounter with British army. He was charged treason and sentenced to death. He was executed publicly.
7/20/1969Varahagiri Venkatagiri retired from the post of President.
4/7/1993Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand.
3/25/19911991 census report released; India has 844 million people.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.