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Historical Event on 9/22/1937

The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.
2/19/1891Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper.
12/14/1969Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
12/14/1969Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
6/1/1992S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
4/14/1993The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries.
10/26/1995India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan.
3/25/1916S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born.
1/11/1986Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.