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Historical Event on 05/22/1545
Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).

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5/18/1974	First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
10/1/1993	The two helicopters along with the first batch of fifteen personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. The two helicopters were provided by 111 HU.
4/30/1991	BJP election manifesto promises Presidential form of government.
6/26/1955	Poland and India affirm Panchsheel.
5/5/1942	Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi.
6/21/1991	P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister of India. He reimained in this office till May 16, 1996. He formed a 54-member ministry in the 10th Parliament.
12/31/1995	K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service.
8/22/1993	V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes.
1/25/1992	Swaran Singh and Vajpayee awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'.
9/1/1893	Kashinath Tryambak Telang, first Maharashtrian Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court, died.

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