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Historical Event on 1/22/2000

India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1973Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/01/1976.
11/10/1909Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
6/20/1873Young Men Christian Association of India was established in Calcutta.
8/10/1989Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.
4/30/1936Mahatma Gandhi started staying in Sevagram Ashram at Wardha in the Central Provinces, making it his headquarters.
8/1/1927Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.